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Your article "the goodwill pill Mess" [BUSINESS, April 29], about medicines that are given away to countries in need, implied that Eli Lilly & Co.'s donation of its antibiotic CeclorCD during the Rwandan refugee crisis was unwanted and not of use. Far from being unwanted, Lilly's 1994 antibiotic donation was specifically requested by the American Red Cross and other U.S. private voluntary organizations. And far from not being useful, cefaclor, the active ingredient in CeclorCD, has demonstrated its value in countries at all stages of economic development. It is the world's largest-selling oral antibiotic. Furthermore, the entire...
...strange mess: Everyone's worst fear (being found out) enacted in a flash tragedy. Why did he wear two V-for-valor pins? Two seems to be piling it on a bit thick. Did the first false-macho decoration demand a twin, a second iteration, to make it convincing...
...thus begins two hours during which Gorbachev yells, whispers, lectures and cajoles. "You are now a free people," he says. "I accept my share of responsibility for the mess we're in, but remember that when I got power I set out to reform this country. You now have the freedom to choose, but you must learn how. You must debate civilly. If you want stability, which you think you have lost, you must first learn respect for law, especially since some still want to shut...
...Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson, shrouds the aimless bustle of its plot--kidnapping, murder and political maneuvering set against a 1934 jazz milieu--in an opium haze of dramatic anomie. Stephen Frears' The Van, third in the series that includes The Commitments and The Snapper, is a noisy mess, with shouting in lieu of wit and brawls stunt-doubling for character conflict. But this pub/pug violence was mild next to the atrocities in David Cronenberg's Crash, the festival's mandatory annual outrage. This terminally creepy movie, from the J.G. Ballard novel about people who get sexual thrills from...
Pushing absurdity further, "Sticky and Greasy" ends its bittersweet (emphasis on sweet) love story with the lines "Lollipops don't belong here/shouldn't sugar reside elsewhere/What a mess!". Compensating for its lack of profundity, the band exudes energy as the sensual Fitzpatrick screams "sticky and greasy" along to a driving melody. Deep meaning is hardly the main concern of listeners at this point. Continuing this innocent approach, the band breaks into "Serious Stuff," a wonderful song with a great guitar line, catchy chorus and unexpected tempo twists...