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...Food and Drug Administration might be reluctant to green-light the drug. That's because the FDA's pressure prompted Hoechst-Marion-Roussel to pull probucol from the market two years ago: The drug lowers the body's levels of artery-protecting "good" cholesterol by 40 percent, a definite drawback...
There is one serious drawback to this otherwise seamless production: the inclusion of the hell episode, which makes a better read than a dramatic scene. Not that the actors and director David Wheeler don't have a damn good try at making it work. The debaters deliver their arguments with conviction and fluency, and the director attempts to break up the essential monotony of a dialectic discussion through physical movement and some pleasant comic touches: Mendoza's four brigands become four devils, horns and all, who periodically cross the stage with admirably solemn expressions, replenishing drinks and once bearing...
LONDON: Anglophile ex-House Speaker Thomas Foley is said to have the Court of St. James's for the taking. But the post has one drawback: the stately residence of Winfield House is undergoing extensive renovations. If Sir Thomas is not Britain bound, he could be headed for Japan, where former Capitol heavyweights like Mike Mansfield and Walter Mondale are doted...
...there was any drawback to last night's game, it was the return of the Third Period Blues, a syndrome in which the Crimson inexplicably seems to enter a state of hibernation later in the game and relies on its defense and goalie J.R. Prestifilippo...
...forbidding Margaret Atwood has turned a notorious Canadian murder case from the mid-19th century into a shadowy, fascinating novel. Alias Grace (Doubleday; 468 pages; $24.95) is less combative and ideological than such earlier Atwood novels as The Handmaid's Tale and The Robber Bride. That's not a drawback. There's a teasing, unknowable mystery at the heart of the story, which is the same one faced by jurors in Toronto in the 1840s: to what extent was Grace Marks, a pretty, nearly 16-year-old servant girl, guilty of the murder of her employer, Thomas Kinnear...