The thorny problem of Cuba, 90 miles from the U.S. coast, refuses to go away. Like it or not, President Bush, like his predecessors, will have to deal with the inherited, persistent problem of the communist Caribbean nation. It has been said that Fidel Castro’s health is not what it has been in the past, […]
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The January 12 article describing how business owners are demanding action because of the recent string of armed robberies expresses our frustration as Macon residents. Undercover agents will be placed at businesses, but the reality is that police cannot be everywhere all of the time. Moreover, the courts have ruled they need not protect individuals;
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Every doctor knows that a gagging patient is a sick patient. But apparently the American Medical Association believes gagging medical research is just dandy when it serves the AMA agenda at the expense of public health. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently “gagged” authors of articles submitted to JAMA from speaking to the
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This slim tome can be read in one or two settings — if one can stand the poignant drama and the horror stories recounted in the pages of this book. The Politics of Psychiatry only came to my attention because its documentation value was mentioned in two special issues of The New American magazine chronicling
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This biographical reference book on “the key figures in the gun control debate today” delivers arguments and counterarguments on the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. This book puts human faces on the argumentation. The figures featured in the reference book came from different backgrounds
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One has to look at the vicissitudes of life in the great tragic figures of history, Cortes, Columbus, Napoleon, etc., to find precedents in the relatively obscure life of Charles Edward Stuart, “The Great Young Pretender,” Bonnie Prince Charlie. Although towards the latter part of his life he came to stoop very low, he had,
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