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Even the American Bar Association, which took a strong hand in crafting the original statute, may change its position in February, when its house of delegates will vote on an A.B.A. task-force report that recommends scrapping the law. If it must be kept, the task force argues, only the President, Vice President and Attorney General should be covered by it. Also, the Attorney General should have a role in selecting the independent counsels, and the Justice Department should not be tied to a hair-trigger threshold of evidence in deciding whether a counsel should be appointed. Other critics argue...
...took a ruling in Britain's highest court that Pinochet was not covered by official immunity to highlight a dramatic but almost unnoticed evolution under way in international law. The premise that national leaders cannot get away with mass murder and torture has been on the books since the Nuremberg and Tokyo war-crimes trials and is reinforced by resolutions at the U.N. It's also backed by international treaties banning genocide, torture and terrorism...
Tell that to Dr. Philip Needham, father of the cox-2 inhibitor, who calls the white paper Palmer presented to the FDA panel "a predictable effort to protect their drug." If you want evidence that Celebrex works, he says, just ask the 13,000 arthritis patients who took part in its trial. "We're getting letters saying, 'Please don't take us off,'" Needham says. And the side effects? Pretty close to placebo levels...
...quite that simple. Traditionally, when celebrities endorsed products, their fame became slightly tarnished and therefore less valuable. Now, however, they just become more famous, and they get money to boot. (The only category of famous people of whom this is not yet true is journalists. David Brinkley took a big hit for becoming a spokesman for Archer Daniels Midland Co. But then pioneers often suffer when carving paths that soon become common and comfortable.) Similarly, rich folks who do ads buy themselves fame without spending their wealth. But most actual billionaires are probably as famous as they wish...
...decision initially produced a reversal of scenes played out years ago, when black players began breaking into white-dominated athletics. "The guys played me harder," Meriwether says. "Everybody called me 'white boy,' and I took a lot of elbows." But Meriwether, an easygoing kid who talks as if he's 30 and has an irrepressible sense of humor, played well enough to earn a spot on the team as backup point guard. "He's hard-nosed," says teammate Richard Bluette, "and you've got to be because at this school they'll try to bring you down...