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What to do is obvious. First, find a scale, assess your excess winter baggage and act now. "It's a lot easier to lose a pound or so today than 20 lbs. later on," says Yanovski. In general, just as you built up the weight slowly, you should take it off slowly, aiming to lose no more than a pound or so a week...
Many politicians come to high office relatively unknown: look at the long history of surprising American Presidents in this century alone, from Truman to Clinton. And biography is not necessarily destiny. But bits and pieces of biography are almost all we have to assess Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin...
...combined experience of 28 years and more than 300 arrests, were unable to determine after the first barrage that their suspect had not fired a single shot. If cooler heads had prevailed, wouldn't Diallo still be alive today? As trained professionals, police officers must be able to assess situations, not simply use deadly force against anything threatening. The verdict in the Diallo case at a minimum should have been "guilty of reckless endangerment." Now, anyone could fall victim to impetuous and rash policing. BEVERLY JACKSON Laurel...
...think these regattas served as a barometer for the Harvard teams by allowing us to assess our strengths and weaknesses as we start preparing for Nationals," Bischoff said...
Faculty analysts compared the results of the 1997 and 1999 senior surveys, in which departing students were asked, among other things, to assess the quality of their department's advising...