Word: quits
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Kenneth Starr has decided to quit prosecuting while he?s not ahead. Late Tuesday, the Independent Counsel decided not to seek a retrial of Susan McDougal and Julie Hiatt Steele, both of whom were accused of hindering his office in separate investigations, and both of whose cases ended in mistrials earlier this year. Though the cases were different -- McDougal was accused of keeping mum about the Clintons? Arkansas business dealings and Steele was accused of lying about the Kathleen Willey case -- "both made Starr appear to be overzealous," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. "McDougal made him look that...
...problem! It's lazy parents, violent entertainment and a lack of moral and spiritual grounding that are responsible for the subculture of death that exists among our youths today. If guns are the problem, why have school shootings not been going on since the founding of the country? Quit spouting that tired old antigun b.s. that contributes nothing. JERRELL A. PARKER Lewisville, Texas...
...this was good news for the rapidly fattening bottom line of Direct Response Marketing, a tiny pharmaceutical firm in the British Channel Islands that trades in trendy pills at the website lifestyledrugs.com To his inventory of Viagra (for impotence), Propecia (for balding) and Zyban (to quit smoking), owner Tom O'Brien last week added the much hyped Xenical. Result: a tidal wave of U.S. Web surfers that overwhelmed his staff of four. "We're averaging about 60 to 70 orders an hour," O'Brien reports. "It's wiped...
...quit in disgust without finding another job first," Liu wrote in an e-mail message. "A bit later, I was approached by Apple Daily saying that they wanted to upgrade the paper and created a decent op-ed page...
...Crimson, however, would not quit. Junior Vedica Jain, playing in the No. 2 position, battled back from her one-set deficit, to take the second and third frames, putting Harvard on the board...