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...being able to make it, whereas most diabetics produce normal or greater than normal amounts, but appear to suffer from insulin insensitivity. Over time, as they are given insulin, they become less and less responsive to it, and then often are given more and more, so setting up a vicious circle...
Somewhere in all of this Hampton is trying to ask the old "Who are the real savages?" question. A noble enough endeavor, no doubt, but the mere juxtaposition of primitive (pure) natives with westernized fellow Indians or vicious white men cannot answer any of the questions Hampton raises in this show...
...stacked line collectively rejected Roland on a fourth-and-one just into the quarter, and a vicious tackle by end Dave Otto dropped Roland for a five-yd. loss on fourth-and-three at the Harvard 24 with 7:30 left...
...cloud of alleged corruption that is now hovering over Bellotti carries a tragic irony. Bellotti, in his 1964 narrow loss to former Governor John A. Volpe, was the victim of vicious and apparently false innuendos concerning his ties to the underworld. The defeat for governor, which came when Bellotti was only 41 years old, marked the turning point of a meteoric rise to power in Massachusetts politics...
...tragic event took place, I was thoroughly examined," he wrote, "and exonerated of any blame." Michaelides tried to discredit the Bruce family in the letter and blamed them for his own legal problems. He claimed his wife "was a criminally mistreated and unhappy person." He accused her mother of "vicious and dehumanizing" verbal assaults and said her opposition to the marriage demoralized Alexandra. He threatened: "If a more equitable approach to my case is not adopted in the near future, I have no other recourse but to use publicity by furnishing evidence to the newspapers that will destroy the false...