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...those in the Administration who had misled the President on his State of the Union assertion-since retracted-that Iraq had acquired uranium from an African country. He tried to do this carefully, diplomatically. He wouldn't use the word lie. He wouldn't specify Dick Cheney as the culprit, although the Vice President was clearly the person he had in mind. Uncharacteristically, he stumbled over words and didn't seem at all comfortable. Kerry's modest sidle toward aggression made the evening news; Dean's didn't. Kerry had "won" the day-for a change-and what promises...
...legal system is not the only culprit in the malpractice mess. Critics say soaring premiums are less the result of lawsuits than of insurers rushing to make up for their losses in underpriced premiums and poorly performing investments. An independent study by Weiss Ratings to be released this week shows that states with caps on malpractice damages have not enjoyed much relief in malpractice-insurance premiums but have instead seen insurers shore up profits. Sosenko's anger at the insurers moved him to join several hundred other Illinois physicians at a rally in the state capital earlier this year, calling...
...biggest culprit is the hour-long midterm, or “hourly.” Usually consisting of several phrases to be identified (IDs) and a short essay, a midterm attempts to measure the knowledge gained over two months in about 53 minutes. A typical ID asks for the significance of the battle of Gettysburg to a course on war and politics. If you think that’s difficult to explain in five minutes, well, you’re right. Of course, professors don’t really expect students to go into an in-depth analysis?...
Hale is the biggest such culprit. Batting just .143 on the season, he’s gone 2 for his last 17. Oddly, both those hits were homers...
Sometime in late October, as the trio traveled by bus to San Diego, Mary Katherine Smart, 10, had a revelation of her own. The sole witness to her sister's kidnapping walked into her parents' bedroom and blurted out, "Dad, I think I know who it might be." The culprit? "Emmanuel," the man who had helped repair their roof. Though investigators composed three sketches based on Mary Katherine's recollections, they did not release any of the drawings. As late as Feb. 12, Mitchell was arrested by the San Diego County sheriff's office for breaking a church window...