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...Barry Lynn, head of Washington based Draft Action, said that if opponents secure a wide ruling on this question. "It would taint other prosecutions of other vocal straft critics." That, he explained, could rise through the system quickly...
...successful vaccine would finally put an end to the age-old taint that lepers bear. Even today, patients, though treated and no longer contagious, carry the onus. "I feel ashamed," says Leni Ignosta, 20, a Los Angeles welder who contracted leprosy five years ago in Samoa before moving to the U.S. "I don't want anybody to know I have it, not even my family. I wanted to stay in the U.S., but I think I'll go back to Samoa and live by myself...
...verdict on the Borg case, then, can only be anticlimactic. Though a negative decision might taint the Borg legacy, his Wimbledon record and six French Open singles crowns assure him election into the Tennis Hall of Fame. Conceding to Borg's request would not jeopardize the legitimacy of the game--not from the perspective of his fellow competitors, or from that of the fans. In fact, Wimbledon should display flexibility and discretion by ruling in favor of Borg--if it has the courage or the conscience...
...Miller made a special effort to bar any juror who would regard the long sequestration as a genuine hardship. Says he: "I simply don't think that anyone who is angry or resentful will be an impartial juror. And there is the risk that he might taint the rest of the jury...
...often demanding. Consider the following passage, Fish's reflections after he has described the various "zones" that make up Harvard Square: "I pause hard at the corner then, considering whether to cross over or turn back, aware already even here in the borderland between the two zones of a taint in the air of unclear appetite, of relentless and unfocused inclination to consumption...