Word: breaking
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...Deanna Frankowski, the Beck fan mentioned in your article, is "sick and tired of being ignored"? Give me a break! I had to wait through eight years of an Administration that brought this country to the brink. Frankowski should sit down quietly while the rest of us get to the task of cleaning up Bush's mess. Besides, this health-care debate isn't about those over 30; it's about the millions of uninsured, recently graduated young people saddled with loans we can't imagine paying off, who are sick and tired of living in an abyss created...
...score again for the rest of the half. But the same can not be said for the Leopards, who dominated the second quarter, executing a balanced offensive attack spearheaded by senior quarterback Rob Curley. Lafayette found the endzone twice more before the clock ran out, heading into the break with a 28-3 lead...
...than half of 18- to 24-year-olds say they are interested in engaging in public service. Likewise, on our own campus, the majority of undergraduates report participation in public or community service during their time here. This past March, Phillips Brooks House Association’s alternative spring break program, which sends students to various locations for weeklong public service activities, received a record 380 applications—an increase of approximately 90 percent from last year. Harvard seniors from the Class of 2009 also set a record for applications to Teach for America—223 students applied...
...funding of abortion because some consumers would purchase those health plans using government subsidies. This fungibility argument shifted the issue from direct federal funding of abortion to indirect funding. And eliminating indirect funding of abortion is a nearly impossible standard to meet. Taxpayers already subsidize abortions through the tax break given to employers for sponsoring company-insurance plans, and technically any employer that receives a government grant - say, for laboratory research - has a fungibility issue if it uses an insurance plan that includes abortion coverage...
...next week's midterm for Stephen Pinker's class ("Why is it so hard? It's supposed to be a Core!") or catch up in one sitting on the whole last month's worth of reading for Paul Farmer's upcoming exam, FlyBy suggests that you take a break and go outside—down by the river, to be exact...