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...spot, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window. The concerts were canceled, and the restaurant, Centro Vasco, a Miami institution, was shut down. "They feel like they are in a situation of war," says Miguel Gonzalez Pando, a Cuba researcher at Florida International University, "so any dissent is tantamount to treason." In the U.S., so is denying a person the right to free speech...
President Clinton said he would keep the Senate in session until they considered the bill. However, Republicans have said they find the president's interference tantamount to a deflection of his own campaign finance woes...
...tantamount to a rogue industry's confession of decades of malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance. True, most smokers have grasped that they were flirting with grave health consequences, but their awareness owed no thanks to the industry. Its Council for Tobacco Research and in-house scientists failed to undertake serious, sustained inquiry into the causal links between smoking and disease formation (no doubt out of fear that what they might find would put them out of business). Its Tobacco Institute picked apart every new Surgeon General's report and trivialized the damning findings of dedicated independent public-health investigators...
...problem with such reasoning is that admitting that quality is more important that sanctity is tantamount to saying that individuals who have a lesser quality of life than us have a life which is less sacred. By this reasoning, our lives are more precious than those of the starving kids in Ethiopia who have an abysmally low quality of life and a very painful existence. If such individuals started demanding "voluntary" euthanasia, saying that their suffering was unbearable, would we be willing to accommodate them too? And what about a paraplegic who requests death? Are we going to refuse...
...however, is Kardashian. According to Stephen Gillers, a legal-ethics expert at New York University, Schiller's journalistic privilege could have shielded Kardashian as a source for the book--if he hadn't gone on abc's 20/20 and repeated many of the damaging revelations about Simpson. "This is tantamount to a confession of professional misconduct by Kardashian," Gillers says. "It's like videotaping your own crime." The worst punishment Kardashian could suffer, though, is to be disbarred--and since he hadn't practiced law for years before the Simpson trial, that would not be a huge sacrifice...