Word: alpha
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Rivera says his "disaffection" from Hillel is what led him to join Alpha Epsilon Pi, an international Jewish fraternity that started a Harvard chapter last year...
...ALPHA TROUBLE A massive trial on 42,500 patients with high blood pressure was abruptly interrupted last week when researchers realized that the hypertension drug Cardura--one of the so-called alpha blockers--was linked to 25% more cardiovascular complications than diuretics, the decades-old alternative. Patients on Cardura were also twice as likely to be hospitalized for congestive heart failure. If you're one of the 1 million Americans who take an alpha blocker, ask your doctor about switching...
SAVE THE EARTH TONES We're often told brown is the new black, but Al Gore seems to have been following that fashion advice a little too literally on the campaign trail this past month. Perhaps alpha males are supposed to have monotonously autumnal wardrobes...
...have been a case of the hungrier candidate carrying the day. Throughout the early debates of the primary season, Gore repeatedly told Bradley: "Bill, this is not an academic exercise." And while Gore hired feminist image specialist Naomi Wolf to help convert him into a power-suit-wearing Alpha Male, Bradley remained the genteel, cardigan-wearing policy wonk he was known for being on the Senate floor. Bradley also suffered by having the air sucked out of his campaign by the fierce battle between John McCain and George W. Bush. After Bradley's strong showing...
...While one might consider such a locking of horns to be standard fare when bringing together a number of alpha-females and -males into the same extremely cramped workspace, such an analysis would be ill-considered, to say the least. We here at the magazine instead consider such behavior to be the successor to existential crisis in the postmodern milieu. Clearly, we find ourselves trying to wrap our minds around a difficult, nay, hot-buttony issue...