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...take a vow of silence for the duration of the Senate trial, why did it have to be McCain? True, this is serious business, which needs to pass the test of history, not just make the next day's Hotline, but why couldn't, say, Senators Mitch McConnell and Barbara Boxer be the ones to stuff a sock in their mouth? McCain's absence has created such a big hole on shows like Imus in the Morning that producers have reached down to third-tier chatterers like me. The Sunday shows used to be exclusively for people of McCain...
...fish, few major dealers got hit. In fact, 86% of the "650 lifers" had never done time; 70% were poor. "A lot of them were young people who made very stupid mistakes but shouldn't have to pay for it for the rest of their lives," says state representative Barbara Dobb, the Republican who began a reform effort. In August, G.O.P. Governor John Engler signed a law allowing 650 lifers to be paroled after 15 years...
When she met with Monica Lewinsky [NOTEBOOK, Jan. 11], Barbara Walters was quoted as saying, "I found Monica warm and intelligent and very open." How sweet! After all, Barbara also found Richard Nixon "sexy"! MARIANNA BERGER Lakewood, Colo...
...after surveys indicated that Diet Coke drinkers like to read. Presented with the possibility that some 40 million Diet Coke drinkers might be turned into some 40 million readers, the publishers jumped at the opportunity. Among the authors the companies chose for the launching of the new cooperative enterprise: Barbara Taylor Bradford, Elmore Leonard and Lisa Scottoline. Diet Coke now hopes you'll be the first to collect all six. As for the publishers, they hope you'll want to quench your thirst for more and go buy the real thing -- the books themselves...
Most women and even many physicians overestimate a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, says Dr. Barbara Weber, professor of medicine and genetics at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center in Philadelphia. For example, everyone has heard that 1 in 9 women develop breast cancer. "That doesn't mean you have a 1 in 9 chance of getting sick tomorrow," she notes. It means that over a lifetime of 85 years, 1 out of 9 women will develop breast cancer. But two-thirds of breast-cancer patients die of something else. In fact, heart disease...