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...Geneva It's a Walkout A U.N. conference on racism turned chaotic after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "cruel and repressive racist regime." His outburst confirmed fears of the U.S. and other nations, which boycotted the event on the assumption that it would be used to castigate Israel. As some attendees stormed out in protest, activists in rainbow wigs pelted the Iranian leader with red clown noses...
...figures which caused the market to rise and the average person to feel better about his prospects where a short dodge in the wrong direction, the economy will have played a cruel trick. Cruelty and tricks are part of the fiber of daily living at this point, so perhaps the shocks will begin to hurt less...
...President's ability to conduct an effective foreign policy. On Haiti, Clinton faltered early and embarrassed himself. In the opening days of his Administration, he felt obliged to continue George Bush's policy of sending all Haitian refugees back -- a policy he had denounced during the campaign as ''cruel.'' He had been well on the way to recovering, though. The U.S. brokered the agreement under which Aristide, who is living in Washington, was to be restored to power; it was signed on American soil, Governors Island in New York Harbor, in July. In a letter in June to American ambassadors...
...League baseball schedule is somewhat of a paradox, both generously forgiving and callously cruel...
...tumor growth. Antiandrogen drugs, like bicalutamide, work by binding to the androgen receptors on prostate-cancer cells, chemically preventing the hormones from interacting with the tumor. Over time, however, cancer cells become resistant to the drugs as the number of androgen receptors on the cells increases, and in a cruel twist, the drugs somehow begin to stimulate the cancer instead of suppressing it. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...