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...DOCTORS. Do some medics take the Hypocritical Oath? Or can a star get anything he wants? On Nov. 12 Jackson cut short his world concert tour after admitting addiction to legal painkillers. Several days before, he gave a taped deposition, played last week during a music-plagiarism suit, and the star's speech was vague, slurred, fretful and forgetful. Further questions are raised about the extensive plastic surgery performed by Dr. Steven Hoefflin, who has also worked on Michael's sisters, on the star's face and perhaps other parts of his body. Declares a rival plastic surgeon, Dr. Wallace...
...TUCSON, ARIZONA, LAST JULY, 76 HISPANIC IMMIGRANTS WERE sworn in as U.S. citizens. While the oath was administered in English, the surrounding ceremony was conducted entirely in Spanish. Last May, Florida's 13-member Dade County Commission unanimously repealed an English-only ordinance that banned the use of other languages in public meetings and most government publications...
Christopher and the other two members of the troika that helps run U.S. foreign policy -- Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and National Security Adviser Tony Lake -- share all the virtues in the Boy Scout Oath and then some: they are talented, intelligent, hardworking men who rarely backstab or second-guess one another. They argue correctly that they have done well enough on the issues that affect the country's most vital interests, including Russia, the Middle East, relations with Japan, and the future of NATO. It is also true that Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti are intricate problems with no easy...
...Republican Richard McIntyre had been declared the winner in a disputed Indiana election, but a special House committee, in a straight party-line vote, gave the seat to Democrat Frank McCloskey. When McCloskey took his oath, angry Republicans walked out of the chamber in protest. Michel returned alone and shook McCloskey's hand...
...week after Clinton took the oath of office, Magaziner circulated a secret 26-page memo to the First Lady, Cabinet officers and a few close political advisers of the President. Drawing on the Merck speech, Magaziner asserted flatly that managed competition -- with caps on payments -- was the model for Clinton's reform. Ruling out more radical approaches, Magaziner's memo said further that the chief goal of the coming months was to work out the most controversial aspect of the plan: how to finance the new system...