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Perhaps unsure as to the term’s precise meaning, Reese leaned to one of his colleagues for a mid-round hint, opening the door for a follow-up question...
...mulling in disillusionment over the list of social injustices that Howard has brought to Australia without a hint of remorse, I suddenly saw the silver lining of my country’s dire state of affairs. I began to feel a twinge of delight about his re-election as I began to think about the possible re-election of George W. Bush on Nov. 2. It’s not out of spite that I wish the same insufferable fate upon the U.S.; rather, it occurred to me that the only possibility of ending this lengthy stretch of neo-conservatism...
Apparently, Mergler hasn't noticed 1201/2 East Main Street--up a mere flight of stairs from Bush headquarters. The John Kerry--John Edwards posters in the windows of James M. Linehan's law offices give a hint of what is going on there each night when a smaller but equally determined band of Democratic volunteers takes over the premises for its own phone-bank operation. Linehan thought he knew just about every Democratic activist in the county, so he was startled when dozens of strangers showed up at an organizing meeting in his office last month. It turned out they...
...some of them former drug addicts who've gone straight under the influence of their new beliefs. They helped destroy two armored personnel carriers. But Jamal doesn't want to discuss in detail the Wahhabi's tactics. "The less you say, the longer you live," he remarks. He does hint at a highly secretive, tightly compartmentalized organization. "A man comes from time to time and passes on instructions," he says. The Wahhabis and the Maskhadov wing of the resistance tolerate, help and protect each other, but they don't like each other much. One of the people listening to Jamal...
...first hint that there might be a problem with Vioxx surfaced in 2000, just a year after the drug won FDA approval. A study that compared Vioxx with naproxen (the active ingredient in Aleve) showed that Vioxx cut gastrointestinal problems in half but increased the risk of heart attack from 0.1% to 0.4%. Those results were ambiguous, though. Was Vioxx causing the heart attacks, or was naproxen protecting the heart? Few experts fault Merck for continuing to market Vioxx on the basis of that study alone...