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...Would you consider verbal and physical abuse a form of harassment?” Sara Lam, a student at the Graduate School of Education, asked the panel...
Even when an election is not months away, such probes mean different things to different people. To Democrats, a blue-ribbon panel would discover whether Administration hard-liners shopped around for intelligence that fit their war aims. "The Administration made a conscious decision to cherry-pick the intelligence and to make the most aggressive case possible ... based upon its belief that [ousting Saddam] was the right thing to do," says Indiana's Evan Bayh, a Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. "The caveats were in there from the beginning, but they became increasingly less emphasized and then finally were dropped altogether...
...senior White House official told TIME that Bush might go along with a blue-ribbon panel, though the President wants to let the Iraq Survey Group continue its work. With Kay having resigned his post, the group is now under the leadership of Charles Duelfer, another veteran arms inspector. Bush, the official said, continues to stand by Tenet, in part because foreign intelligence agencies also missed the WMD. Besides, the source added, Bush is "very willing to go out and discuss why [war] was the right thing to do. He is as sure of this as he is of anything...
Baker is convinced Paxil is what killed her daughter, and that's what she'll tell a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel meeting this week in Bethesda, Md. For years a small but vocal group of patients and doctors have insisted that certain antidepressants, including Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac and other medications known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), carry an unacceptable risk of antisocial behavior and suicide in kids who take them. Many clinicians and most pharmaceutical companies disagree. Major depression is a dangerous illness that in itself can lead to suicide, and they insist that the benefits...
...reason is that most studies on effectiveness aren't really definitive. They don't prove one way or the other whether the drugs work significantly better than placebos--and the Brits went with the more conservative interpretation. That, argues Dr. Graham Emslie, co-chair of the American panel and the author of several studies on SSRIs, is shortsighted. "A failure to show effectiveness is not the same as proving ineffectiveness...