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Kitty Menendez:...Deeply unhappy in her marriage, she is an alcoholic who , periodically and desperately makes futile attempts to live up to her husband's standards. Aware that her marriage is a sham, she herself is the victim of Jose's cruelty...
...most advertised change initiated by Liem--the new advisory committee--is a sham. The committee is stocked with Liem cronies: the aforementioned Vince Li, his wife Hetty and a number of natural scientists who Liem works with (including one whose dissertation he advised). Medical School Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Edmund C.C. Lin, a member of the Dunster Senior Common Room, is so concerned about the committee's composition that he plans to issue a written warning to two faculty members on the committee, "so they won't be taken in by the others...
...long as he remains in command of the only sources of wealth in the country, Babangida will not be easily dislodged. Already some thoughtful Nigerians have suggested that the interim government, though a sham, should be given a chance to solve the country's manifold problems; to do otherwise would risk more bloodshed. Yet such a prudent course may only delay the day of reckoning, when Nigerians who dream of democracy will have to risk their lives to make it come true...
Pepsi tried to control the damage by offering a 500 peso ($20) "goodwill" prize to all holders of sham 349 caps, and the company paid out $10 million in the process. The appeasement effort may be rendered futile when the cases reach court, especially if the judge agrees with the Philippine Senate Trade Committee, which released a report this month that faults the company for "gross negligence" and "misleading or deceptive advertising...
Third-year student Daniel S. Drosman, however, says the commentary about male-female relationships is "not political," that it's "just her own bitterness enshrined in the paper." Drosman says such claims of political underpinnings are "a sham explanation for the vibrator, an after-the fact justification...