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...cheats. He tried Tomahawk diplomacy; Saddam just ducks and ignores 'em. Even as Clinton last week charted a sustained bombing campaign that one offiCIAl likened to a "slow, soaking rain," no one suggested that it would rid the world of Saddam. The goal of the strikes was more modest and less satisfying: to "degrade" Iraq's ability to make and deploy weapons of mass destruction, temporarily at best. Maybe to club Saddam into some cooperation with the inspections regime. Certainly to punish him. But not to solve the Saddam problem for good...
...week the Archives of Family Medicine, a sister publication of J.A.M.A., reported a study suggesting that echinacea was no better at preventing colds than a placebo (a pill with no active ingredients). But the researchers conceded that their sample size, 302 volunteers, may have been too small to detect modest differences and concluded that more study was needed. The researchers didn't test whether echinacea alleviates colds already in progress...
...pretty good description of Meet Joe Black, in which Death with a big D takes over the body of Brad Pitt so that he can have beautifully lit sex with Anthony Hopkins' soulful daughter (Claire Forlani). The film, released last week, is similar in theme to last spring's modest hit City of Angels, in which Nicolas Cage, playing an angel who escorts people to heaven, decides to become mortal himself so that he can have beautifully lit sex with heart surgeon Meg Ryan--and you have to admire the daring of a movie in which Meg Ryan playing...
...when Tom Wolfe first came to New York City, he bought a white silk-tweed suit to wear in the summer, and it turned out to be heavy enough to carry over into the fall and winter. Even though Wolfe is a modest, self-effacing man, he discovered that he liked being noticed for his trademark white attire, and so has continued wearing...
...reason is that felony disenfranchisement laws take away the vote for a wide variety of offenses. For an offender to lose the vote, the report states, "the crime need not have any connection to electoral processes, nor need it be classified as notably serious. Shoplifting or possession of a modest amount of marijuana could suffice...