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...this epidemic, diarrhea was a minor feature," Freeman said. The absorption levels probably returned to normal quickly, he said...
...argument ignores the fact that, unlike the Nazi analogy, the military's policies regarding service by homosexuals are embedded in and are a minor, perhaps mistaken, product of a flourishing democratic process and vigorous constitutionalism that goes further to protect all minorities and every liberty than any other regime known to history. Gestures of defiance or disassociation made against such a regime are rarely justified, particularly if those making the gesture pay no price whatever for it while imposing all the costs on others who may not agree with them. In this the objecting members of the Faculty are quite...
...discovered a lawsuit the pilot had filed against his former employer and called him in for questioning about it. Henrickson's relationship with his immediate boss had grown strained in recent years. Then in 1993 a fellow pilot was fired for what Henrickson and other pilots felt was a minor infraction. Henrickson tried to intervene. Two months later, he too was fired. He then brought the lawsuit, charging retaliatory dismissal. His personnel records were clean, reflecting regular raises and promotions, but the suit was dismissed in October. "Under current Arkansas law, Joe's case is impossible," points out Henrickson...
After replacing his Nikes with a pair of baseball cleats, Air Jordan seemed distressingly earthbound as he made his debut in the minor leagues. When he bought a luxury bus for his team to travel in, critics carped that the whole endeavor was a vanity project. Yet the Birmingham Barons' rightfielder finished the season as one of just six players in AA ball to get 50 or more RBIs and steal 30 bases, proving he can do what he said he was there to do: play...
...here's a movie. Three stories that begin as cliches but soon go wild and wily. A gallery of tough guys who minor in philosophy. Career-defining turns by John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Peppery dialogue that brings macho swank into the '90s. Quentin Tarantino's adrenaline rush of a melodrama is a brash dare to timid Hollywood filmmakers. Let's see, he says, if you can be this smart about going this...