Word: prevented
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These days BRAD PITT may feel like spending seven years in Tibet, or at least somewhere a little less media-saturated than the U.S. The actor won a court order to prevent Playgirl from distributing any more copies of its August issue, which features two-year-old snapshots of him sunbathing in the nude with then girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. Unfortunately the judge did not order Playgirl to collect the 300,000 or so copies that were already in subscribers' mailboxes and on newsstands, thus creating a publicity bonanza for the flesh mag. Pitt is pursuing a lawsuit, despite the fact...
...call euthanizing our pets humane, yet because of the court's ruling, we can't be humane to humans even when a person is pleading for release from unbelievable suffering. Safeguards must be put in place to prevent abuse, and Congress must establish the right to die for all who choose to exercise it. RANDY KEMNER Long Beach, Calif...
...HOMO" on the dry-erase board in permanent marker. But that would be too blatant. Instead, we thought that we should write it in small letters on the side of one of the bedroom doors, where he would only find it several months later--after prolonged hangovers which would prevent him from ever suspecting anyone but Craig could have wrote it. And our most sophisticated plan involved leaving the house absolutely spotless but throwing all of the beds into the backyard. The scene unfolds...
...Kuelzer, co-owner of Grendel's, said the exorbitant rents that result from development "prevent many new, unique and funky businesses from starting...
...bill, a sticky development since Clinton considers the House proposal less acceptable even than the Senate's. GOP leaders were tight-lipped on details, but people close to the talks said the Republican proposal will allow investors to subtract the effects of inflation in calculating their capital gains and prevent the expansion of the $500 per child tax credit. Both provisions are anathema to Clinton. The bargaining table, meanwhile, is decidedly tilted toward the President. "Clinton and the Democrats are ahead in the public opinion polls in almost all the issues related to taxes, so the White House...