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...have heard much from the mayor about what the feds did not do; he has been less specific about what he did. He did not respond last week to repeated requests from TIME for an interview. But the paper trail shows that the mayor did indeed follow the agreed-upon course of action, more or less. It just wasn't a very good one for a city with so many poor people...
...arteries, the murky water varying in depth from inched to more than 10 feet. At times we found ourselves paddling over the tops of pickup trucks. Looking down into the muck to avoid hitting cars and up to maneuver around low hanging power lines and tree branches, we came upon a flatboat filled with law enforcement officials, who were skeptical about our presence, but reluctantly allowed us to continue. Above us a steady stream of helicopters circled, patrolling the area from...
...those they take into custody their rights, a ruling Rehnquist had savaged over the years. "Miranda has become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture," Rehnquist wrote in an opinion that the fiery young Rehnquist would have spat upon. For the aging Rehnquist, tradition weighed heavily...
...when her young female customers turned teenage, she found they were still demanding her services. So the house of C?line came out with a Young Girl shoe collection. By the time these teens became women, their loyalty to C?line was so entrenched that she realized she'd be called upon to lead them in fashion for life. "If women followed me, it is because I understood them," she said many years later...
...only when it smells a buck. Its main business, she maintains, is producing minor variations on existing drugs - renamed and repackaged but usually no more effective - and backing them with lavish campaigns aimed at convincing doctors and the public that a remarkable new drug is in their midst. "Once upon a time drug companies promoted drugs to treat diseases," Angell writes. "Now it is often the opposite. They promote diseases to fit the drugs." To create new markets, she argues, big pharma has been complicit in pathologizing a host of minor complaints. A spot of heartburn used...