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...Saddam's hold on power is as tenuous as some officials in Washington claim, that is not visible in Baghdad. The government has lost control over the Kurdish north but has tightened it somewhat in the Shi'ite-dominated south and still firmly grips the Sunni center. The country has been weakened, the army especially, but Saddam remains the strongest of the weak. His control over the intelligence and security services appears unshakable. Officers' families are hostages, and the regime is very good at creating a community of guilt, in which everyone has committed crimes from corruption to execution...
...felt somewhat vindicated last week by a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association about the safety problems associated with new medications. Of 548 drugs approved by the FDA over the past 25 years, fully 20% turned out to have serious or life-threatening effects that were unknown or undisclosed at the time of approval, according to an analysis directed by the Harvard Medical School. Sixteen drugs were subsequently withdrawn from the market, but not before millions of people had been exposed. Seven of those drugs had side effects so serious they were cited as possible contributing factors...
...Communicating through the State Department was like having sexual intercourse through the sheets,” Galbraith said, adding that he may have originally put it in somewhat rougher terms...
...victim, whose IBM T-22 laptop was stolen on March 13, characterized his relationship with Wan, who lived in his dorm, as somewhat brotherly—it wasn’t unusual for Wan to play practical jokes on him, he said...
...fact that the University still does not recognize certificates on students’ transcripts makes the real-world value of the distinction somewhat ambiguous...