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...though he discusses a range of issues, Obama is sure at every event to mention his plans for middle-class tax breaks, rewriting trade treaties and fixing the subprime crisis. Yet it is another message from the Obama camp that seems to be having a bigger impact these days: that his nomination is inevitable. "Support for Clinton from these Catholics is more pro forma than deep and Senator Obama can make some inroads, especially if these voters begin to suspect that it would be unlikely for Clinton to win the nomination," said Steve Schneck, a political science professor at Catholic...
...tournament’s over I’m going to take a little break to heal my knee,” said the freshman, who also suffered a leg injury earlier this season. “Then I want to get back to work in the offseason, get bigger and stronger.”Certainly, all of the Harvard grapplers will look to shed the injury bug and start fresh next season. If the young team can maintain its health, the Crimson will look to send more wrestlers to St. Louis and improve on its 33rd place overall finish...
...birds per hunt, each one - barely meaty enough for a single serving - netting him about $30. But the birds are not poached to feed people who would otherwise go hungry, he says. "It's more of a vice, not for the people who live near the swamp, but the bigger people," restaurant owners in the rural south that serve it illegally and wealthy connoisseurs who have come to view eating scarlet ibis as a status symbol. (In 2001 the chairman of the country's airports authority was arrested for poaching scarlet ibis...
...Stuff They Don't Need Re "The New Austerity," most adults I hear from claim that their spending on bigger homes and more cars and stuff is for family [March 24]. But as a high-school teacher, I have never had a student write an essay on the wonderful big home, the two cars or any of the other stuff showered on them. Instead, students write of their parents' absence - due to busy lifestyles or divorce - and the sense that they are disconnected from their peers. I hope your article spurs readers to free up time for friends and family...
...models in leotards draped across operating tables and traction equipment. A new ruling requires every research presentation to begin with full disclosure of all monetary relationships the speaker has with any company. Every single fully trained doctor I heard speak was getting paid by a company; many of the bigger-name doctors were getting paid by three or four. How much money was still the subject of gossip - the exact amount is not required to be broadcast in these podium confessionals. The DOJ has, however, ordered companies to list the doctors in their employ, as well as the amounts paid...