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Deciding to go to Harvard is usually a no-brainer, but for Katie E. Fitzgerald ’09, the choice was a little less obvious. Fitzgerald, who spent the last two years in Los Angeles living off a contract with Jive Records, was on her way to becoming a star when she decided to enroll at Harvard instead. But she insists that her decision wasn’t a hard one. “I wasn’t one of those kids who knew they wanted to be on MTV,” she says...
...private health insurers, opting for a cheaper generic version of an expensive name-brand drug is a no-brainer. But Senate Republicans are under fire from Democrats for encouraging just the opposite. The dispute has arisen over how much of a discount pharmaceutical companies should be expected to offer on drugs sold to Medicaid, the health care program for the poor. A deficit-reduction bill under consideration last week by the Senate Finance Committee had included a provision that would increase to 17% the current 15.1% rebate manufacturers of brand-name drugs must offer Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office estimated...
...declined from 3.1 million tons in 1970 to around 800,000 tons today. The fishery collapsed off the east coast of Canada, and fishing there was banned in 1992; the North Sea cod take is now down 75% from 15 years ago. Farming cod, says Viguie, "was a no-brainer, really--you have a fish which is endangered that is also a big part of many nation's diets...
...Burlings thought about opening a restaurant there, then became excited about the idea of a resort. Burling considered his choices: stay in Sydney, he recalls, and be another "brick in the wall," or take a risk in Tonga. For a free spirit like Burling, it was a no-brainer. "I figured that if we ended up back in Sydney with the arse out of our pants," he says, "we wouldn't be much different to a lot of other young couples." Like the missionary Vason, Burling's father, Alan, was a bricklayer. In 1979 he helped his son build...
...teenager who just got dumped by her boyfriend; and Maureen, a middle-aged shut-in with a severely disabled son. Momentarily distracted from self-destruction, the four get to comparing notes. (Maureen is immediately judged the top gun, misery-wise. "Oh, yeah," says Jess. "That's a no-brainer. Don't change your mind. You'd only regret it.") They decide to put off jumping and instead form a bickering, wary, ad hoc fellowship. It's like The Breakfast Club rewritten by Beckett...