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...that he will recover and is treated with sympathy, his pain will often disappear. In the same way, a simple sugar pill, or placebo, prescribed in place of drugs, can have a curative effect. In fact, before the 20th century, when doctors relied on bleedings and all sorts of dubious nostrums, most of medicine was a type of placebo (Latin for "I will please...
...Sebe has seized upon the dubious gift with ebullience. Although unemployment in Ciskei has been running at 50%, its leader remains recklessly spendthrift. Just two weeks ago he announced a lavish scheme to furnish his dirt-poor homeland with an international airport, a harbor and an air force. Such tragicomic aspirations and the tyrannical rule that enforces them have made Sebe's fief something of an embarrassment even to its stepmother. Said the moderate Johannesburg Star: "Ciskei has become a byword for all the worst excesses of banana republics...
Germany weighs a dubious proposal to cure Europe's joblessness
...story had it that Continental was about to fail and that federal officials were trying to persuade another, and healthier, bank to buy it. Dubious as it was, the news managed to cast a long shadow over the whole banking industry. Jittery traders scrambled to sell bank-issued certificates of deposit and rushed to seek safety in U.S. Treasury securities. Dealers in other markets temporarily lost confidence in the rising dollar and started bidding up the price of gold. Even the porkbellies market reacted, and prices fell because Continental is a big lender to commodities traders. Some traders apparently helped...
...Raphaelitism never quite went away. It acquired an armor-plated niche in the English imagination. Its present triumph, symbolized by the Tate show, has nothing to do with dubious cultural cliches like "postmodernist irony." There is no irony in Pre-Raphaelitism. Everything there, from the pale, swooning damozels down to the last grass stem, is the product of unutterable sincerity. Those painters would rather have died of lockjaw than paint anything that was not direct, heartfelt and didactic...