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...Sunday morning, the Crimson awoke to find a cloudless sky and a pumped-up George Mason team rarin' for an upset. George Mason, like Holy Cross the day before, dominated the game offensively, but somehow, again, the Crimson managed to come out on top on the scoreboard...
...untrustworthy. Last week Miller made public voluminous personal records -- including medical and financial data -- while challenging North to do the same. That would remind voters that the former Marine officer was hospitalized 20 years ago for emotional stress. The ploy also revived rumors, which North denies, that he somehow expunged mention of that therapy from his Marine dossier before he joined Ronald Reagan's National Security Council staff...
...film, Isabel Allende's complex, stylish novel has of necessity been stripped to its working parts. Yet the thing works in its goofy way, mainly because Bille August (of Pelle the Conqueror) is a man of apparently dauntless conviction. He has written and directed every scene with serene authority, somehow compelling your belief in what he's doing through his own sublime self-confidence...
...haven't the loopholes all been sealed shut? Sure, every tax bill from 1934 to 1993 has been hailed by Congress as the ultimate loophole plugger, but somehow there are still enough of these little leaks to drain off billions from the public treasury. Among them: luxury homes in which nothing goes on but "business," or tax dodges like the Beverly Hills Gun Club, which provides substantial paper losses for investors like Sylvester Stallone...
Like detectives who determine how a fire broke out by studying the way in which the house burned down, the researchers surmised that HIV had somehow switched on the dormant oncogene, causing the cell to divide repeatedly. "It surprised us at first," McGrath recalls. "We thought it was coincidence, but then it happened three more times and we knew we were on to something." The new cancer cells released yet more virus, which activated oncogenes in other cells, starting a deadly chain reaction...