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...comments to the press while the case was pending--notably, comparing Microsoft at various points to a French emperor and a D.C. drug gang. Or as Chief Judge Harry Edwards acerbically put it, Jackson's propensity to "run off [his] mouth." The legal system, Edwards said, "would be a sham if all judges went around doing this...
...Shoulson: There's been a lot of debate as to whether sham surgery is ethical - my feeling is that it's unethical not to use the sham procedure. By using a control group, we are closer to a real answer, not just to affirming whatever we wanted the answer...
...This study also weathered a lot of criticism because it used sham surgery - a procedure in which one group of subjects just had slight indentations drilled into their heads - to create a control group. Can you answer those critics...
Myth number three: The New Economy was all a sham, a Ponzi scheme designed to dupe the average American. This myth is a little bit more complex. Some pundits, so naive they should never have been given a bully pulpit, have pointed to the recent slowdown as proof that the New Economy was a ruse. They point to the equally naive proponents of all the New Economy hype who promised an end to the business cycle, growth and prosperity forever and a stock market that never went down...
This Valentine's Day the author is neither lonely, miserable nor jealous. Why? Because she knows that romantic love, at least the kind represented on Valentine's Day, is pure sham. Those smiling idiots who buy the Hallmark cards and the roses have no idea that true love is really about fights and make-ups, bed-head and bad days. And those of us who know it aren't jealous of those who have it because it's hard, damn hard, to love someone like that...