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...Haimovitz's transfer to Harvardfrom Princeton, the music department went to greatlengths to accommodate his needs and his erraticperformance schedule, as did Kirkland House, byensuring that he had access to sufficient practicespace. When referring to the majority of cases,however, Risinger offers a logical analogy."Musical performance here is akin to varsityathletics. People will be enthusiastic andsupportive," but in the end, the emphasis stillrests on academics...
Overall, Breggin said the use of such drugs by psychiatric patients is akin to treating them worse than inanimate objects...
Some might describe a trip to this store as a walk through a carnival fun-house. Some might find Jack's clutter and constant chatter more akin to a house of horrors. If cheap thrills at cheap prices are what you're looking for, then Jack's got some magic...
Lebanon and Syria today treated Israel?s offer to withdraw from southern Lebanon as something akin to an April Fool?s joke, indicating they weren?t interested in even discussing the matter with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After all, tacked on to the headline-grabbing announcement that Israel accepted a 20-year-old U.N. resolution ordering its withdrawal from Lebanon, is the rider that Netanyahu would only redeploy his forces once Israel?s security had been guaranteed by Lebanon and Syria. Since the U.N. resolution calls for unconditional and unilateral Israeli withdrawal, today?s announcement looks like little more than...
...troops hewed out miles of rock trenches with bayonets and survived for 10 years beneath the shelling of the Ethiopian army. It still takes 10 hours in a four-wheel to drive the 137 miles from the capital over rugged mountain tracks. But Nakfa is a place of veneration akin to Valley Forge. "It reminds us forever of our resistance," says Zacharias, a teacher at the new technical school. The national emblem is the camel that carried supplies to Nakfa; the country's new currency, introduced in November to replace the Ethiopian birr, is called the nakfa. Despite Nakfa...