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...medical jargon that signifies a mild heart attack. Emphasis on mild--Cheney's episode qualified as a heart attack only under a stringent new definition adopted by the American Heart Association about a year ago. All the same, 2 1/2 hours later Wasserman had to reappear to speak the plain English words: "a very slight heart attack...
...deadline. Really? Then what about the court's own deadline of Nov. 26? It caused Miami-Dade officials to shut down their recount completely. According to its own logic, the court has disenfranchised thousands of Miami-Dade voters. But the whole disenfranchisement charge is absurd in any case. The plain fact is that any deadline must necessarily "disenfranchise" voters--or it would not be a deadline, i.e., a date after which otherwise legal ballots must be ignored. We must nonetheless have deadlines, or no election would ever...
...revenues. Unlike the executive, it commands no police forces. Its power rests entirely on people's belief in its legitimate authority. But that belief can--and should--be forfeited when courts do what the Florida Supreme Court has done: wantonly usurp their two coequal branches, denying both the plain language of a law and the plain authority of the official elected to administer that...
...sorely needed. Scientists never rule out a theory completely, and this approach has led too many people to think that something ridiculous might be valid. Too many discussions of alternative medicine emphasize possible side effects when what should really be pointed out is that most of those treatments just plain don't work. People all over the world are being scammed to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. WENDY NATHER Chicago
...Like NRBQ and the Grateful Dead, whose encyclopedic catalogs provide the only fair comparison, Los Lobos have absorbed everything from rockabilly to Marvin Gaye (whose "What's Going On" ends the album), with field trips through psychedelia, doo-wop, blues, pop and just-plain-out-there studio experimentation. And that's not even counting their mastery of the traditional Mexican music they grew up with, the soundtrack of life in Chicano East L.A. With 86 songs, there's a lot to like here: the earliest forays into the studio with traditional material like "Guantanamera"; the rowdy guitar-driven rock...