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...round in the courts. But in the court of public opinion, at least, the finger-pointing over what led to Terri's 1990 collapse at age 26 could get nastier. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler (who want her kept alive), have suggested that her husband Michael Schiavo (who insists she would not have wanted to live in her vegetative state) physically abused her. He vehemently denies the charge. But one possible cause of her collapse could soon become an issue. In a 1992 medical-malpractice suit brought by Michael, bulimia was raised as a possibly significant factor...
...controversy over claims in the president's State of the Union address and other pre-war speeches about Iraq's yet-to-materialize weapons of mass destruction and leaks from White House officials about the identity of a CIA operative. Errant spin also undermines White House efforts to insist its account of post-war progress in Iraq is the most accurate one. "At a time when the economy is getting better and our policies are being vindicated," says a White House official, "this kind of stuff is killing...
...instances like Sarah’s, we justify accepting a friend we can’t stand with social etiquette. We insist it’s rude to reject someone. This person has taken the time to invite us as a friendster, and it is common courtesy to accept. Besides, what is so bad about having someone’s picture linked to your profile on a silly website that people visit when mindlessly procrasterbating...
Still, if companies want to sell even more masks, lanterns, witch hats and the like, good luck to them. It's the gullible consumers who fall for the pitch whom I detest--the employees who insist on decorating sensible cubicles with orange and black streamers and littering the office with bowls of candy, the folk who dress up and throw pumpkin parties at country clubs, the hundreds of thousands who will come to work next week in costume. Chris Riddle is the Halloween trend spotter at card-and-decorations giant American Greetings, which estimates that 25% of the American work...
...This is the Namu familiar to many Chinese, a crass celebrity famous for her fame. Her self-promotion so irks her own people in their remote homeland at the foot of the Tibetan plateau that many insist she is not Mosuo at all, just a mixed-blood descendant of 13th century Mongolian invaders dispatched by Kublai Khan...