Word: innocente
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Part of the answer lies in the makeup and background of Starr's handpicked team. Though Starr prides himself on having created a "microcosm" of the Justice Department, "but perhaps more elaborately fine tuned," true legal diversity eluded him. He had tough prosecutors and brilliant litigators recruited from around the...
Decades ago, Alfred Hitchcock said actors were cattle. Today celebrities are meat: junk food for tabloid headlines, canapes for cocktail-party surmise, fodder for Leno and Letterman raillery. Are the charges, whispers and gags true? Hardly matters; they need only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism...
The staff unwisely supports yesterday's bombing of Iraq. We understand the need to hold the military dictatorship of Saddam Hussein in check, but economic sanctions have already inflicted a devastating humanitarian crisis on that nation; bombings are sure to further victimize Iraq's innocent civilians.
Furthermore, we must question Clinton's motives considering the timing of the attack. Congressional support of military action spreads quickly, and with it, support of the commander in chief. Clinton may well be trading innocent lives for votes in Congress, a possibility we find distressing.
The principle behind the new drugs is that when pain comes calling, it's all cox-2's doing. Cox-1, which wasn't known to be a separate enzyme until 1990, is supposed to be an innocent bystander responsible for "housekeeping" functions--like preventing ulcers. At the FDA meeting...