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...declared in breach of its post-Gulf War obligations and face the military consequences. The trick will be to make such a resolution so tough that the American Administration does not think Saddam can wriggle out of its terms, while not making the whole exercise appear a cynical sham...
...That only confirmed what the entire activist world has already decried, which is that the FLA is a sham organization,” says Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, a USAS conference organizer...
...only problem is that it didn't do any good. How do we know? Doctors ran it through a rarely used but devastatingly effective test: sham surgery. They randomly assigned some patients to undergo the surgery while other patients were wheeled into the operating room, sedated, given superficial incisions (accompanied by the commands and operating-room noises they would hear if the real surgery were taking place), patched up and sent home...
...report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the fake surgery worked just as well as the real one. Two years later, 35% of the patients said they felt less pain and were better able to get around--whether they were operated on or not. In some instances, sham patients outperformed real ones. In other words, the surgery worked no better than--and sometimes not as well as--a placebo...
With the same deliberateness, he has set out in recent years to eradicate persistent rumors that he is gay. In 1998 he won libel damages against a newspaper that called his marriage a sham. Last year he filed two $100 million lawsuits against men who, according to Cruise, spread lies about his sexuality. "I'm not anti-gay," he says, "but how would you feel if someone said your relationship was a sham?" And yet the lawsuits raise a question: Does he protest too much, inviting even more speculation? "If it made it bigger, so what?" he says. "They...