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...will continue until lawyers stop exploiting their clients' color and until every criminal trial has the same financial backing on both sides--defense and prosecution--as did O.J. Simpson's. This trial has proved only that money can buy reasonable doubt. VICTOR M. SANCHEZ JR. El Paso, Texas aol: Ebola Zaer...
...Were Sleeping," at least she has a job, as a computer-systems analyst. But she still doesn't have a life. Friendless and working at home, she comes into possession of a program that its creators say is an anti-computer virus program but is itself an electronic Ebola. Needless to say, Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate...
...sequel of every other movie. Writers pick over the carcasses of hit films and try to extract the golden elements for their own projects. Why, it's Die Hard in a minivan, or Pretty Woman but with Lassie and Beethoven, or Terms of Endearment only she gets the Ebola virus. It's filming by numbers-last year's box-office grosses. The uniform look and feel of recent films suggest that the mad scientists in A Clockwork Orange had it wrong. You don't make a viewer a zombie by force-feeding him scenes of sex and violence...
From a public-health perspective, the efforts to contain the Ebola virus in Zaire [MEDICINE, May 29] must be viewed with deep concern. While we can be assured that the outbreak will be contained, we are facing hard political choices concerning the U.S.'s foreign-aid programs, many of which are aimed at controlling and eliminating disease. We need to recognize the link between the health of Americans and the programs we fund abroad. This is not the time to eliminate foreign-assistance programs. At present, less than 1% of the budget goes to foreign aid. If Congress cuts this...
RESPONDING TO EBOLA...