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Another major deficiency in the current coroner system is that it leaves medical examiners open to political pressure. Virtually all are appointed by elected officials. And politicians and district attorneys often want team players. M.E.s who are too independent may eventually be ousted from their posts, charges Baden, citing his...
In effect, Cicippio's suspended sentence left his loved ones -- and the U.S. -- suspended as well. Behind Cicippio is a tattered line of 14 other Western hostages, eight of them Americans, still believed to be held in Lebanon. Other Americans continue to live and work in that shattered country despite...
Even so, Rafsanjani's earlier words of conciliation toward a nation the Ayatullah Khomeini labeled the Great Satan indicate a major change since Khomeini's death in June. Rafsanjani appears to have moved with surprising quickness to consolidate his leadership against challenges from more radical mullahs, particularly Interior Minister Ali...
PARENTHOOD. Didn't Tolstoy say that each unhappy family is funny in its own way? This brave and original movie, starring Jason Robards as curmudgeonly Grandpa and Steve Martin as his No. 1 son, piles up most of our worst parental nightmares in a single midsummer comedy. It really shouldn...
How do these people face or evade the dour cliches of dead-end domesticity? By expressing their feelings through the poetry of pop songs. Like Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, which also knew how potent cheap music is, Davies' film is laced with dozens of postwar tunes to counterpoint...