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...without mentioning the White House scandals, complaining about how it was the media that had been obsessed with the whole nasty thing. Or to see Henry Hyde, whose House Judiciary Committee must still find its way down from Mount Monica, as he promised last week to descend by the shortest trail he could find...
...money shot. On Monday, after fans had waited 37 years, Mark McGwire hit his record-tying 61st home run of the season, and the next night he showed up for his prime-time network-television special to hit No. 62. The record-breaking shot was McGwire's shortest, lamest homer of the year. Afterward, we looked to the media to be told what the moral significance was. It was like someone brought in the writers from Home Improvement...
Under the best circumstances--in which patients took Redux at the recommended dose for the shortest period of time, 11 weeks--changes in heart valves appeared to be not too serious. The longer that patients took the diet pills or the higher the dose, however, the greater the problems. (In the case of Redux, that meant taking more than 30 mg a day; for fenfluramine, more than 60 mg a day.) One study found that the risk of developing a heart-valve problem jumped 10- to 20-fold...
Junior righthander Garett Vail took the loss for the Crimson, working one and two-thirds innings, coughing up four earned runs on five hits. The outing was Vail's shortest since a 10-2 loss at Princeton in the first weekend of Ivy League play...
Officials in Tehran point out that a pipeline southward through Iran would be the shortest way to go. "This is all ridiculous," says Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, an adviser to the ministers of petroleum and foreign affairs in Tehran, as he draws a map of proposed routes through Russia and Turkey. "We have our hands in the Caspian Sea and our feet in the Persian Gulf, the simplest outlet for this energy...