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...close adviser to Walesa who later allied himself with Mazowiecki. "This election proves that Poland, like all the others, must confront the authoritarian temptation." Next week it must also confront the temptation to cast its fate with a mysterious stranger, one who turned up suddenly to offer a dubious promise of salvation...
...Senate seat." In his campaign against millionaire real-estate developer Jim Rappaport, Kerry applied the corollary to the first rule: He managed to portray his opponent as someone whose only asset was his assets. Kerry's campaign accused Rappaport of acquiring his fortune through family connections, government subsidies and dubious business dealings...
...unlikely event that scientists do manage to unlock the secrets of aging, some experts believe tomorrow's children could reach 130, 150 and even 170. But the authors of the Science report are extremely dubious. Among the increasing numbers of aging baby boomers, contends Olshansky, "very few people are going to live past 110 or 120." And what about Methuselah, the grandfather of Noah, who lived 969 years before he died? Simple, says the researcher. Someone misplaced a decimal point...
More ironic, in the field of crime, women are achieving a dubious sort of equality with men. Mandatory minimum-sentencing laws passed in the late 1970s and early '80s have forced judges to hand out long sentences to women. Says Carole Laughton, an inmate of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, N.J.: "With equal opportunity and all that,we're getting longer time. It has hurt...
Lawmakers used the gulf crisis as an excuse for protecting gold-plated weapons systems of dubious military value. The House had proposed halting production of the B-2 Stealth bomber beyond the 15 currently authorized. But House-Senate conferees approved $4.1 billion to continue the program. The Pentagon has been trying to kill the vertical-takeoff V-22 Osprey aircraft, but Congress, seeking to protect jobs in 34 states, voted to spend $603 million to keep the program alive. The trouble-plagued Strategic Defense Initiative survived with a $2.9 billion appropriation, $1.6 billion less than the Administration requested. While...