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...cheered the host nation, grappled with a certain star's confounding use of his head and made decisive calls on how to improve the role of the game's referees Re "Italy's cup" [July 17]: time was enthusiastic about the success and drama of the monthlong World Cup saga, and described in superlatives various aspects of the games and their positive effect on Germany in particular. As a TV viewer who witnessed most of the matches, let me protest that on the whole, the World Cup was one long soporific. In particular, the final stages (the knockout rounds) were...
...there is a greater risk to patients: the inappropriate use of antibiotics for sore throats that, unlike strep, are caused by viruses, not bacteria. Antibiotics, used incorrectly, may be more harmful than the disease itself. Contrast strep's success story with the saga of staph. Staph is also a microscopic bacterium, one that lives on our skin and in our noses but can cause infections that vary from the inconsequential to severe. It causes superficial skin lesions such as boils and styes; more serious infections such as pneumonia, mastitis, and urinary tract infections. Even more serious infections can dwell deep...
...Lebanon, Hizballah established its terrorist bona fides in the 1980s by kidnapping some 50 foreigners in Lebanon, including 18 U.S. citizens, and killing two of them, notably CIA station chief William Buckley. The group's global reach was achieved perhaps in 1985 with a suspected connection to the saga of TWA Flight 847, in which hijackers shot dead a U.S. Navy diver and dumped him onto a Beirut tarmac. In 1992 Hizballah bombed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29, and, in 1994, a Jewish cultural center there, killing...
Keyser's attorney Robert Litt says the prosecutors' filing "contains numerous inaccuracies." Litt insists Keyser never spied for Taiwan, didn't improperly disclose classified information and fulfilled his end of the plea bargain. The government seems to disagree--and appears content to let this spy saga unfold in court
...Keyser?s attorney Robert Litt says the prosecutors? filing ?contains numerous inaccuracies.? Litt insists Keyser never spied for Taiwan, didn?t improperly disclose classified information and fulfilled his end of the plea bargain. The government seems to disagree - and appears content to let this spy saga unfold in court...