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...talking Stacey Koon, one of four officers on trial for violating King's civil rights, who contended that King brought the beating on himself. Koon, the commanding officer on the scene, told jurors that King displayed threatening "hulk-like strength," appeared to be high on drugs and failed to heed police commands. "He made all the choices, all the wrong choices," said Koon. When a flurry of baton blows had no effect, "I then ordered the officers to attack his joints," Koon recounted. "The intent I had was to cripple him, to break bones, to make him unable to push...
Tossing thousands of snowballs and paying no heed to the cold sting of snow and petty vituperation, members of the smallest (and most intimate) house at Harvard slowly and surely drove back their attackers...
Experts also say drug prices could be better controlled if doctors paid more heed to drug costs and patients had the information they need for comparison shopping. The facts could be readily available through a national computerized data bank for patients and physicians. "Government should not be saying what prices are right or wrong and requiring certain behavior," says M.I.T. medical economist Jonathan Gruber. "Rather, it should be helping to make information available to people. Right now, we know more about the apples we eat than the drugs we use." And the public is paying the price of its ignorance...
...mysterious prophetess, Crone Accustomed Toherface (Jeremy Nye) warns the kingdom (in appropriate iambic pentameter) that evil lies ahead. But the king, who has inexplicably become a Hindu, pays no heed. (The Pudding show can be awfully random...
...country." For openers, "we risk losing the standard of living that we have taken for granted for so many years." But Americans will make the sacrifices required -- most prominently, paying $150 billion or so in new or increased taxes over the next four years -- because they never fail to heed "alarm bells in the night...