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...meeting fell back on safe platitudes about family--Condit, 53, has two twentysomethings of his own--but did little to allay what a source calls Susan Levy's "controlled anger." Since the start of this case, Condit has drawn ever more attention to himself by so obviously trying to deflect it. He might as well walk down the Capitol steps with his jacket pulled over his head. There's good reason not to talk to the media--the beast gets hungrier the more you feed it. But is there any reason not to talk to the police? Clamming up makes...
...There are three sub-classes of entry inhibitors: Fusion inhibitors, attachment inhibitors and co-receptor inhibitors. And while each works in a slightly different way, all entry inhibitors work on the same principle: The longer the cells can deflect attacks from HIV, the longer other drugs will have to work on destroying the existing virus already inside the cell...
...predicted. Meteorologists warned that a supercyclone was brewing in the Bay of Bengal three days before it hit. Giridhar Gamang, Chief Minister of Orissa, took unusual precautionary measures. According to Banerjee, he called in three powerful astrologers and kept a personal vigil as they appealed to the gods to deflect the storm. As frenzied winds snapped telecommunications and power lines, the pundits assured their boss he had little to fear. One said Gamang's stars would protect the state. Another predicted the cyclone would miraculously split into two, dodging Orissa. The third assured him that the cyclone would fly over...
...PSLM member Amy C. Offner `01 said the university's focus on the noise issue is a smoke screen designed to deflect attention from the protest and the living wage, and the protesters have no plans to silence their speakers...
...achieve pre-cooked outcomes. The trick for an administration is to come up with a grouping that appears to have been formed to look at the wide range of options. Smartly, the White House put pro-privatization Democrats to work, including former New York Senator Pat Moynihan. That helps deflect charges of table-rigging by allowing the White House to say the group is "bipartisan...