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...second quarter: After a Harvard stop on third down, Marco Iannuzzi is back to field the punt. A little electricity, perhaps? Iannuzzi has a pretty good return, but there's a flag (illegal block in the back) that brings it back. I guess we can't blame Canada for that...
...best thing you can say about the roofs of most city buildings is that you don't have to look at them much. That's very good, since an urban landscape viewed from above can be an unlovely thing--block after block of tarred black rooftops, sticky in the summer, windswept in the winter, ugly year-round. Or at least that's the way it used...
...therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way. —Romans...
...Senate is expected to pass a similar bill soon. Bush will almost certainly veto anything with a tax hike, but it's not clear if he will block a status quo bill without one. For health, business and environmental groups, the farm bill is a compelling issue, but for the farm lobby, it's the issue, and politicians oppose it at their peril. The same flattery that irked Lincoln was on display last month at a National Farmers Union reception for members of Congress, who gushed about the farmers who had gathered to lobby against change. "Let me thank...
...procedure. Says Edgar Schoen, former pediatrics chief at Kaiser Permanente, who led the 1989 American Association of Pediatrics circumcision task force, which came out neutral on cutting: "A newborn baby is programmed for stress and recovers quickly." Opponents, on the other hand, say foreskin-related afflictions are rare, condoms block STDs, and circumcision has its risks. Michelle Richardson, of Fort Worth, Texas, says her 5-year-old has two genital disorders due to his botched circumcision...