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...cancer, have launched their own assault against tobacco companies. Yet they have been unable to win in a court of law, despite revelations of the addictive properties of nicotine. Tobacco companies have never paid a cent for health problems incurred by smoking. Fortunately, now that the Liggett agreement will unearth older documents, the states may have more fire-power. But what will be the end to this war? Will states be happy with the destruction of Philip Morris, which has 48 percent of the market share? Even if the monolith did go bankrupt, another company would rise to take...
...that for too long just kept going and going, this TV spot exists as a sly parody of its predecessors. Assuming the tone of a Discovery-channel documentary, the new ad presents a team of researchers who've devoted their lives to finding the tireless rabbit. Alas, all they unearth is a woodchuck...
...Gender role conditioning makes women tend to usually become the victim," she said. "We need to unearth the assumption of dominance that goes deep into society...
...like Clinton's acceptance speech. Still, it was a story no news outlet could ignore, one serious enough to bring down the President's chief strategist. As happened so often during the O.J. Simpson trial, the mainstream press had to acknowledge that the tabloids, and tabloid tactics, can sometimes unearth legitimate news. And the Star got another notch in its gun belt...
Moreover, the White House scored a sort of Pyrrhic victory. In two days of House and Senate hearings, Republicans could unearth no evidence that Clintonites used the files to construct a Nixonian enemies list. In fact, the Republicans could not establish that any officials above a rather low level had seen the files. G.O.P. probers who began last week thinking they might uncover a Watergate-size scandal ended up focusing on a less momentous query: Who hired Craig Livingstone...