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...August 1945, Harry Truman made the weightiest presidential decision of the 20th century. He later said he never lost a night's sleep over dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima. For that, some critics to this day condemn him for lack of reflectiveness - and worse. I'd call it decisiveness. And in wartime, decisiveness counts for more...
...Sadr has financed his rise by entering the booming religious-tourism business, cornering the market on Shi'a pilgrims, who have poured into Najaf to visit its shrines. After the assassination last August of Ayatullah Mohammed Bakir al-Hakim, who used to give Friday sermons at the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf, al-Sadr's men worked to consolidate their position in the town--and, more important, their control over the money donated by visitors to its holy sites. Al-Sadr now controls the lockbox at the Imam Ali mosque, worth millions of dollars a year. Last October his militia...
...MCAT is offered twice a year, once in April and once in August...
Nineteen states have already enacted caps on malpractice damages, and the falling payouts have proven effective in lowering costs for doctors. A report by the federal General Accounting Office from August 2003 found that, despite opponents’ common claims to the contrary, malpractice premiums rise more slowly in states with caps. A profitability study by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners found that from 1975 to 1999, premiums have increased 420 percent nationwide. However, California—which, in 1975, became the first state to implement caps on non-economic malpractice damages—saw only a 168 percent...
...have heard otherwise healthy freshmen refer to Harvard’s most august stately house as “Dumpster” and even state the superiority of Mather—which is naught but the box out of which Dunster came! I have even visited the Big Tom Tower of Christ Church College, Oxford and it is but a humbled ancestor of the majestic tower which tops the pinnacle of Dunster...