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...outpouring of support for Kuo by Harvard students is something that deserves praise. We can only hope that Harvard's and the many similar drives organized around the country will prevail in saving Kuo and others desperately in need of a bone marrow match...
...Watch one of our shlockier televangelists, and you'll be introduced to an affable deity eager to be enlisted as your personal genie. Yes, the Great Spinner of Galaxies, Digger of Black Holes is available, for a suitable "love offering," to relieve the itch of hemorrhoids and help you prevail in office intrigues! At least the ancient Hebrews had the good sense to make Yahweh unnameable and unseeable except in the flames of a burning bush--a permanent Mystery...
...order to prevail in court, a plaintiff needs to show that the marriage was perking along quite contentedly until a wanton intruder came along to wreck it. The complaint charges that Dorothy enjoyed the "love, society, companionship, support, affection, right of consortium and kindly offices" of Joseph until Cox "intentionally, wrongfully and unjustifiably and with malice alienated and destroyed a love and affection that previously existed...
...universe," says Lynch, "if this young woman has some reasonable basis for believing he is her father, then she becomes in my mind, and I would think for most jurors, a fairly sympathetic figure." Though law professor Stephen Gillers of New York University doubts the defense arguments will prevail, he predicts, "They will tarnish Cosby's reputation in the larger moral arena." Even if Jackson loses in the court of law, she may triumph in the court of public opinion...
...others are to come in later. The welcome mat is out for the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. But France, Italy, Canada and other members of the alliance were pushing the candidacies of Romania and Slovenia, and in some conference rooms charges of "American arrogance" echoed. The U.S. will prevail, of course, because such decisions must be unanimous...