They suspect, though they cannot yet prove, that this is because men with "vigour" problems who once placed their faith in penis soup have found that Viagra works rather better.

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Press conference with Kembrew McLeod. McLeod, a University of Iowa professor who has trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression."

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"Comcast runs advertisements from many sources representing a wide range of viewpoints, pro and con," Comcast spokesman Mitchell Schmale said in a statement issued Tuesday evening. "However, we must decline to run any spot that fails to substantiate certain claims or charges. In our view, this spot raises such questions."
The statement did not specify what Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, objected to.

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The ALAC is calling for volunteers to serve as its delegates to the Nominating Committee. Individuals interested in being considered for appointment by the ALAC to the Nominating Committee are asked to contact the ALAC via e-mail to <alac-comments@icann.org> before 7 February 2003 (please include in the e-mail your name, country, profession, and e-mail address; write "Nominating Committee" in the subject line; and attach a resume or biography). Suggestions of individuals who may be interested in serving are also strongly encouraged.

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I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka "Christians," and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or "PPs."
To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable medical diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete's foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley. Read it! PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!
And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country, and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And so many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick.
What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can't. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody's telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass!

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The walls in the 6ftx3ft cells were covered in surrealist patterns designed to make prisoners distressed and confused, the report continued, and lighting effects were used to make the artwork even more dizzying.

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Since taking office, President Bush has made channeling federal funds to religious organizations a key part of his agenda. Although the allotment for the International Justice Mission, or IJM, is one of the first faith-based grants to be awarded internationally, others may soon follow. Last month, Bush moved personnel from the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to the Agency for International Development.

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Tsering Gyaltsen Sherpa, 32, will be opening the cafe at the Khumbu glacier at 5,300 metres to allow climbers to access the web.

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I don't understand how "TheWashingtonPostShareholder.com" or"TheWashingtonPostNews.com" constitutes anything short of blatant, tortioustrademark violation.

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"It's not like a normal court," says the magistrate, Motodzi Nemauhidi, who has been working as a judge for 18 years and has presided in the sexual-offense court since 2001. "You have to exercise a lot of patience, because most of the time you're dealing with children and women who are traumatized."

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"This is the first reported case of an association between repeated prolonged immobility sitting at a computer and life-threatening (lung embolism)," wrote the researchers led by Richard Beasley from the Wellington-based Medical Research Institute of New Zealand.

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IN HIS journals, the Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian, who during the Nazi occupation of his country had to earn his living by teaching, notes that “neither my students nor my ‘colleagues’ have taught me anything new.” In a strict sense, I have to say the same, at least about my students. They taught me nothing. What they did do, though, was remind me of the surprise of human possibility. I have taught courses that, so low was the intellectual voltage in the room, I felt the dismaying truth of W. H. Auden’s remark that a professor is someone “who talks in other people’s sleep.” (Another, more pervasively truthful definition of a professor is “someone who never says anything once.”) But throughout my years as a teacher—and especially in my writing courses—I was taken by surprise by students who displayed qualities I would not have expected to find in them.

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It was psychologically a crucial result for the Russian former world champion who lost against the machine's predecessor, Deep Blue, in 1997 after losing the second match.

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O'Toole sent a handwritten open letter to the Academy stating he was "enchanted" by the gesture, but asking if they would defer the honour until he is 80 as he is still in with a chance of winning an Oscar outright.

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