"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Brian Unger's dismissal from hosting TV's 'Extra!' sounds like a death from a thousand cutting memos. 'No more sweaters, if he wants to keep his job' was an early one. Then came complaints about his makeup, prompting a distressing slow-motion makeover. 'My look began wasting away,' Mr. Unger remembers, 'devouring itself like a planeload of soccer players stranded in the Andes. Word came down again. This time--my hair.' Finally there is one last thing to change--'my immediate presence.' He was canned just before Christmas.