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...almost 2,400 years old. Its practices are said to have begun on the Greek island of Cos, near the western coast of Asia Minor, where a school arose around the teachings of the legendary Hippocrates. Today the name of Hippocrates is mentioned most frequently in discussions of the oath attributed to him. But the Hippocratic physicians did far more than introduce the principles from which the codes of today's medical ethics have developed...
...doubtful whether Doktor Kosmos has actually taken any Hippocratic Oath, but the lovably cankersored fellow (if he's the cover man) is no stranger to political commentary. With a European openness and security about the human body, the Doktor pokes fun in "Porno-Person" at the American tendency toward absolute public condemnation of purveyors of porn. As the song's narrator, the "porno-person" tells of "eating porno-food/driving porno car" and ultimately, in the final incongruous shocker, being "body without soul." Deep down, says the Doktor, these porno-people must be just like all of us. Less subtle...
...Since people in the service deal with life and death, the armed forces cannot be compared with any other human endeavor. Civilians must accept the idea that those in command must be held to a high and strict standard. Since an officer's word must go unquestioned, lying under oath, as Flinn did, is a most grievous violation of trust. JOHN V. KAVANAGH Chevy Chase...
...going to be the congressional inquest of the decade. A journey deep into the addled soul of American politics. More FBI agents on board than tracked down John Dillinger. Enough big donors under oath to fill out a fund raiser. Even a man from Watergate swinging the gavel. It would be must-see TV: Big Fred Thompson and his Donorgate hearings...
...shows the perils of prosecutorial passion. Last week he suffered his most serious rebuke, when a federal judge granted a new trial to convicted Tyson lobbyist Jack Williams. Reason: Smaltz's prosecutors had failed to tell Williams' lawyers that one of their main FBI witnesses had admitted lying under oath in an unrelated matter. (A Smaltz spokesman said the lack of disclosure was unintentional.) Last month the judge in another case related to the Espy probe refused to give a convicted defendant the prison time requested by prosecutors, sentencing him instead to a year in a halfway house and implying...