Word: cure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some other antidotes, however well intentioned, may prove more toxic than the racial poisons they are meant to cure. Nowhere is the First Amendment more imperiled than on college campuses. In the past two years nearly a dozen schools have cobbled together policies outlawing insulting and demeaning speech. At the University of Connecticut students may be expelled if they use "derogatory references" or "fighting words" to harass anyone face to face. Yet if such bans succeed in suppressing obnoxious impulses, they merely drive them underground -- along with many ideas that deserve to be aired, if only to kindle a more...
With a small but dedicated following, Mecham would benefit if Annetta Conant swells the G.O.P. field to six. She is a former Evanista who pushed the legalization of Laetrile, the crackpot cancer cure, and secured a letter from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (a fellow Arizonan) erroneously citing legal precedents for the Christian-nation resolution. The most recent entrant is ex-Congressman Sam Steiger, a rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and now electronic-equipment entrepreneur. He was convicted of extortion when he was an aide to Mecham, but it was overturned...
...cure -- letting S&L operators make risky investments -- turned out to be worse than the problem...
There's nothing wrong with Broadway, an old adage holds, that three hit shows can't cure. Actually, not much has been wrong this season anyway. Blockbuster survivors from prior years were joined last fall by four musicals and three plays that all seem securely established, and major new works by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Neil Simon and August Wilson are still to come. But in a five-day span leading into this week, the proverbial three hit shows materialized nonetheless, one after another, gladdening the Great White Way's chronic curmudgeons...
...Smokers will be discouraged to learn that "as of May 1, 2000, cigarettes have been declared illegal." Dan Quayle will be pleased to discover that he has become President. The last homeless person in the U.S. will have found a permanent place to live, somewhere in Chicago, and the cure for AIDS will have come from a wildflower found in the jungles of Africa. A top item in Milestones: Elizabeth Taylor's marriage to Johnny Carson. The covers of the two winning magazines announced the arrival of aliens on earth and superbabies created through genetic engineering. "The kids...