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...quibbles all involve the women of the movie, making a statement that racing is a man’s world, and women are mere functionaries, objects and ornaments to be lusted and sought after, but never truly needed. The numerous shots of buxom race car girls do nothing to dispel the stench of chauvinism...
However, the reality is far from the collective hysteria that's been blaring from the pages of USA Today and The New York Times. Indeed, there are several popular myths that we need to dispel about the current economic situation...
Former FBI Director William H. Webster, 76, who ran the bureau under Carter and Reagan and the Central Intelligence Agency under Reagan and Bush, has consented to lend a little of his luster to FBI Director Louis Freeh, who is struggling to dispel the taint of the FBI's worst spy scandal. As head of an inquiry into the intelligence disaster, Webster says sympathetically that decades of experience have taught him one thing: "There is no absolutely fail-safe setup that will quickly and immediately identify a good man or woman who goes sour. So our focus will...
...American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, is designing a program that takes into account the child's age, size, experience and chosen sport. Not only are the experts saying it's O.K. for a child as young as seven to participate in strength training, but they're also beginning to dispel some of the misconceptions about its risks and benefits...
...That, together with al-Megrahi's trip to Malta under a false name on Dec. 20 and his association with Edwin Bollier, the Zurich electronics expert the court believes manufactured the timer for the bomb, was enough to dispel any reasonable doubt as to his guilt. The judges felt the prosecution's case was insufficient against Fhimah, former station manager for Libyan Arab Airlines in Malta. Though entries in his diary suggest he gave Air Malta luggage tags to al-Megrahi, the court wasn't convinced he was "necessarily aware" that they would be used to spirit a bomb onto...