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...mayor ought to remember that when the 15-ton bronze scuplture was toppled and carried off in August 1991—during a three-day coup that heralded the final demise of the Soviet Union—grateful bystanders whistled, cheered and applauded. As Princeton University professor Kathryn Stoner-Weiss observed last month in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, “The fall of Iron Felix was a bold declaration that KGB repression would have no role in Russia’s democratic future...
...study of marijuana's health effects is at once more complex and less advanced than you might imagine. "Interpretations [of marijuana research] may tell more about [one's] own biases than the data," writes Mitch Earleywine in Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence, published in August by Oxford. For example: "Prohibitionists might mention that THC [delta-9 tetra-hydrocannabinol, the smile-producing chemical in pot] often appears in the blood of people in auto accidents. Yet they might omit the fact that most of these people also drank alcohol. Antiprohibitionists might cite a large study that showed...
...first cut that we made in August was the toughest one because I personally didn’t think I played that well,” Chu said. “But by the time the last cut came [on Dec. 17th], I was a lot more confident that I had a good chance to make the team...
...Back in August, we felt that Morocco was the kicker of the future and we could develop him for a year, because Blewett and Wright would give us a solid rotation at kicker,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy says. “Obviously, things change, and things have changed a lot since the start of the season...
...This August, just when I began to think the U.S. Postal Service had stopped menacing Americans—no one had received anthrax-laced mail in months, and I hadn’t had to worry about college rejection letters for more than a year—our mailwoman deposited an envelope in our mailbox that shattered my complacency...