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With ratings of Ally McBeal sagging in recent months, the show's producers tried to give the series TV's equivalent of cosmetic surgery, goosing it with guest stars like Matthew Perry, Jon Bon Jovi and even Dame Edna. But such distractions couldn't mask the fact that the show...
Weiss is booked three months in advance--and a quarter of his patients are men. Baltimore financial manager Adam Fein, 44, was not looking for cosmetic surgery when he wandered in with a wart on his foot. But six treatments later, his acne scars and spider veins are 90% gone...
The case for slavery reparations, as proposed by Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree and his national Reparations Coordinating Committee, is an impractical and cosmetic means of achieving a worthy end—amends for the brutal experiences of blacks under slavery and segregation. Americans need to confront the...
Martin's job then is to police a line that lies somewhere between the undesirable and the unenforceable. He and the rest of the Alpha Squad are relentless and polite, though the African dealers claim they are being targeted on account of their color. "I understand that they feel this...
These are not cosmetic changes. "Our foreign policy used to be based on indignity," explains a Beijing scholar. For decades, the country, which had suffered the humiliating defeat in the Opium War in the 19th century, acted as though barbarian troops were threatening to sweep across its soil imminently. But...