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...adopted a flawed policy. In 1984, a national minimum drinking age was indirectly set by Congress at 21 by threatening the states. If that restriction on drinking did not become law, the U.S. would withhold highway construction and maintenance funding: five percent the first year, 10 percent each year afterward. Thus the current drinking age was induced, rather than ordered upon states. Not surprisingly, all 50 states have a drinking age of 21. Money talks...
Leaders of the Algerian government tersely explained that the wholesale bloodletting last week was necessary. ``When the security forces found out [about the murder of the guards],'' said a government official, ``they had no choice but to storm the building.'' Afterward Algerian television showed footage of pistols and grenades allegedly seized from the prisoners, suggesting they may have had help from other prison officials...
...public statements issued afterward, the relief on both sides was palpable. "We got everything we could have hoped for," said Bingaman. Microsoft, for its part, declared the deal "reasonable," all the while insisting that the company had done nothing illegal and was going along only to avoid what could have been the biggest antitrust case since the government tried-and failed-to break up IBM in the 1970s. All that was required to seal the agreement was a review by a federal judge...
...excuse for physical contact, followed by the hideously awkward first kiss, and before you know it, someone's trying to hide their bad hair and lipstick smudges while doing the walk of shame home. Glory in your temporary triumph-just do yourself a favor and wash your sheets soon afterward...
...well. Of Indian ancestry, he grew up in Fiji and is a rising star on the U.S. and European professional circuits. Last week the lanky man with the homegrown swing won Arizona's Phoenix Open--and $234,000--on the first hole of a two-man playoff. Said Singh afterward: ``You can be a little more aggressive when you know you can't finish worse than second...