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...antismoking lawsuits have been filed since 1954, but not a single cigarette maker has been forced to pay a single penny in damages. Says Maura Ellis, a spokeswoman for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.: "Juries have consistently found that smokers should be held responsible for their own actions." But public sentiment began to shift during last year's congressional hearings, in which tobacco executives stubbornly refused to admit that smoking was addictive, even as internal company memos revealed that cigarette makers have long understood-and hidden-nicotine's addictive properties. Says Sheldon Schlesinger, a lawyer working on Florida's case...
Such a banal sentiment should more likely have found its way into a fortune cookie than onto the cover of a pre-eminent American news magazine...
...also tried to dispel fears that there isstill anti-U. S. sentiment in Russia. "Don'tbelieve there is anti-American sentiment. In 1990they thought you had a recipe about what we mustdo--no longer," he said...
...disturbing "Salo," strangely prophetic. It represents the enigmatic end of a tumultuous artistic career and, as Pasolini's 1959 novel proclaimed in its title, A Violent Life. "Mamma Roma" is far more typical than his last film, of the mix of politics and poetry, of ideology and of sentiment, which characterizes most of Pasolini's work. Its magnificent cinematography and superb acting make it a pleasure, not a torture, to watch...
...lack. The best way for the Administration to do this would be to form a special committee comprised of selected undergraduates who would agree to devote time to studying and discussing the issue. Additionally, a campus-wide survey of students might provide the administration with valuable feedback about current sentiment. Finally, we would like to urge all students who feel strongly about this issue to write to the Dean's Office...