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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...think the only shameful thing is... Steven Rosenfeld has declined to even ask questions," Dershowitz said...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, | Title: Dershowitz Challenges Nominee | 12/5/1990 | See Source »

Support of this kind from the five permanent members of the council as they stand today is unheard of. Such unprecedented global support for a military invasion surely suggests at least one other thing: that President Bush can now expect extraordinary cooperation in an economic blockade that would rival the greatest castle siege...

Author: By Thomas Gewecke, | Title: Let the Sanctions Kick In | 12/4/1990 | See Source »

...method's effectiveness demonstrated on large numbers of burn patients are U.S. doctors likely to take these claims seriously. Before-and-after photographs prove little, since a few patients have healed surprisingly well under any circumstances. Concludes Dr. Fred Caldwell, president of the American Burn Association: "It's one thing to make claims of a miracle cure. It's another to back up those claims with good clinical trials." The ointment may ultimately prove to be of some value, but in medicine new treatments have to pass the test -- again and again -- before they become miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold Shoulder for a Burn Cure | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Millis' sound, of course, was commercial enough, but it never rated high on the soul meter, no matter who was actually doing the singing. The whole controversy, in fact, is juicier than any of the duo's music. One thing can be said with certainty of the Millis: nothing so became their leaving like the life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fans, You Know It's True | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...book critic for a newspaper plagiarized an old essay of mine. Someone sent the thing to me. There on the page, under another man's name, my words had taken up a new life -- clause upon clause, whole paragraphs transplanted. My phrases ambled along dressed in the same meanings. The language gesticulated as before. It argued and whistled and waved to friends. It acted very much at home. My sentences had gone over into a parallel universe, which was another writer's work. The words mocked me across the distance, like an ex-wife who shows up years later looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Kidnapping The Brainchildren | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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