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Perhaps the hope was always an illusion. After the Siamese-twin government replaced the Vietnamese-installed regime, the chaotic and corrupt new administration accomplished almost nothing except to set up Ranariddh and Hun Sen as competing warlords. The situation became increasingly unstable when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the other...
Even his friends suggest a dark side. "Will Smith is Evander Holyfield, and Martin is Mike Tyson," says Steve White, a Martin writer and onetime Lawrence roommate. "I like Tyson; he'll do anything for you. But he's misunderstood." Jamie Masada, who runs the L.A. comedy club the Laugh...
The ecstasy among Americans who are in a spending frenzy results from the fact that they have several credit cards with $10,000 limits and lots of debt. The euphoria is an illusion that will soon fade away, leaving everyone depressed and longing for the past, when wages were worth...
Orlistat is not the only weight-loss nostrum to target the mass market lately. Last year the FDA approved Redux, a drug that controls appetite by boosting levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, producing a sort of chemically induced illusion of being full. A similar medication, sibutramine, is expected to be...
What's wrong at the FBI is not new. Back when J. Edgar Hoover was the director (1924-72), we did not hear of mistakes because he flooded the media with propaganda. Today's director, Louis Freeh, is not a master cover-up artist like Hoover. For decades, FBI scientists...