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...latest flap over the nationalities of inspectors could have been trumped up, Zilinskas believes, because they were getting close to evidence that directly linked Saddam with the germ-weapons program. The inspectors are particularly interested in locating 25 warheads filled with poisons that have been shuttled around the country since the Gulf War. They are big--about 10 ft. long and 3 ft. wide--and could be fired atop Al-Hussein missiles with a 400-mile range...
Creator of the Website School Sucks, Sahr is kind of the poster boy of the whole term-papers-for-sale flap on the Net. The issue resurfaced with fresh hysteria a few weeks ago, when Boston University filed a lawsuit against eight outfits that actually sell papers, via the Web, to students too lazy or dumb to write their own. Sahr, you should know, is not a defendant in that suit since the thousands of papers at his site--on every subject from "The Tragedy of the Black Death" to "Why Nuclear Fusion Is So Cool"--are yours to download...
DIED. HAROLD ROTHWAX, 67, no-nonsense New York judge catapulted to prominence by the libel suit he brought against loose-mouthed radio talkster Don Imus; of complications from a stroke; in New York City. Though the public may have been fascinated by the flap with Imus, jurists were more intrigued by Rothwax's legal odyssey over the years from civil liberties lawyer to law-and-order judge. In an attention-catching 1996 book, Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice, Rothwax argued that justice would be better served by clipping defendants' rights and giving police more leeway to seize evidence...
Pitt, 33, is dressed casually but expensively, his well-tailored shirt an odd hybrid, country-and-western in style, but with extra long cuffs that the actor has chosen to leave unbuttoned so that they flap modishly about his wrists. It's a look that suggests sartorial detente between Garth Brooks and Austin Powers. Which, when you think about it--if, like me, it's your job to think about it--is pretty much where Pitt would fall on the spectrum of masculine iconography, his fidgety Midwestern guyness touched with just a hint of dandified self-regard. This...
...flap comes at a time when the A.M.A. least needs it. Once it commanded virtually unchallenged respect. Today its power, despite a membership of 300,000, is greatly diminished from its heyday in the 1960s, when it had enough clout on Capitol Hill to dictate substantial changes in Medicare laws. Older physicians in particular are dismayed that it has been unable to slow down the managed-care revolution that has deprived them of income and decision-making power over patients. Many younger physicians find the organization simply irrelevant...