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McCarthy is at her best and most disturbing when she argues that the Medina proceedings were doomed from the start. Since Calley's judges concluded that he acted on his own rather than on orders, Medina's prosecutors could scarcely argue that Medina was the culprit after...
...most Freudian melodramas, Mama is the culprit: lapping, pawing, hugging, and not much comfort to a young Portnoy, seeing outside the Jewish womb, beyond the intellectual, cultural and religious worlds of his parents. Alex wanders like...
...subjects who had damaged heart valves but no history of rheumatic fever. In many cases he found evidence of a long-ago B4 infection. How viruses and strep bacteria, together or separately, work to harm the heart is not yet clear. But if B4 proves to be the principal culprit, Burch foresees the possibility of developing a vaccine against...
...dealing with Revere's sexual prowess. It turned out that an A.P. technician in New York, using the hoary rhyme to test what he thought was an in-house circuit, had inadvertently cut into the agency's "A" wire, the conduit for top stories. A.P. fired the culprit and sent out an urgent "disregard" order-in prose...
...conglomerate is also anxious about further disclosures; Anderson has more documents as yet unreleased. Though ITT has destroyed some of its files and hired the international investigative agency Intertel to look into the leakage, the culprit is still unknown. It has to be someone with news sense and access to tightly held material. One theory: "A goddam angry secretary...