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...that nature's cruelties and caprices are beyond rational accounting: Bangladesh does not deserve the curse that seems to hover over it. But the man thinks that to describe all that as evil gives evil too much power, too much status, that it confers on what is merely rotten and tragic the prestige of the absolute. You must not allow lower instincts and mere calamities to get dressed up as a big idea and come to the table with their betters and smoke cigars. Keep the metaphysics manageable: much of what passes for evil (life in Beirut, for example...
...protest against the appearance. (The index entry reads "Dershowitz, Alan, protests Nazis honored at Harvard, 90-91.") Weizsaecker's crime? As an attorney, he defended his father, a high-ranking Nazi diplomat, in a war crimes trial. Representing an unpopular criminal defendant! Why of all the heinous, rotten, despicable acts...
...million). Sterling regularly mails a free newsletter to more than 300,000 health-care professionals, mostly dentists, promising to increase their incomes dramatically. The firm offers seminars and courses that typically cost $10,000. But Sterling's true aim is to hook customers for Scientology. "The church has a rotten product, so they package it as something else," says Peter Georgiades, a Pittsburgh attorney who represents Sterling victims. "It's a kind of bait and switch." Sterling's founder, dentist Gregory Hughes, is now under investigation by California's Board of Dental Examiners for incompetence. Nine lawsuits are pending against...
About all that can be said for Charley is that his reluctance to marry a spoiled-rotten fiance (Elisabeth Shue) and take on a classically choleric movie mogul (Robert Loggia) in the bargain is understandable. About all that can be said about Vicki is that she is pretty and sings sexily...
...turns out that they can be rotten for your health. The organic compounds of woodsmoke are suspected of being linked to cancer, heart disease and disorders of the central nervous system. "People never realized how dirty they were," says Naydene Maykut, an air-pollution scientist. Heating 30 houses with wood stoves, she notes, creates as much particulate matter as heating 30,000 houses with natural...