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...student support has grown increasingly more visible since Friday with the creation of "tent city"-20 tents, banners and messages of support for the living wage campaign drawn on the cement in colored chalk. More than 50 students have slept out the past three nights...
...exactly is corrupt? When asked this question by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and others, McCain never names the culprits. We could chalk this up to civility, but McCain has never before revealed any qualms about engaging in that “straight talk” he loves so well. Is it because he himself was implicated in the Keating Five scandal of the ’80s? As the standard newspaper accounts go, his involvement in that scandal led him to his jihad against the special interests...
...SITE SEEING Excuse Me While I Kiss this Guy... You know that part in U2's [She Moves in] Mysterious Ways where Bono starts singing about "Shamu the Mysterious Whale" and ... Wait a minute! Chalk up another entry on KissThisGuy.com(as in Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze lyric "kiss the sky"), the archive of misheard, misunderstood and mangled song lyrics. Perplexed by the Ramones' "I want a piece of date bread"? What they really sang was "I wanna be sedated." If this doesn't change the way you hear music, then "the ants are my friends is blowin...
...globalized, but also why the others remain local and regional commodities to this day. Apparently drugs such as kava, a beverage made from a pepper root in the Pacific Islands, and qat, a leaf product that is generally chewed, never caught on because of the former's taste of "chalk and body sweat" and the latter's tendency to cause constipation and nausea. Drug users were willing to make sacrifices for the high, but as Courtwright points out, the markets were overflowing with more potent drugs that were more pleasing to the senses...
...late December, the Federal Register published the administration's hard-fought and exhaustively researched medical privacy rules, hailed by privacy advocates as the most comprehensive and sweeping protections ever. But thanks to an administrative glitch (chalk it up to end-of-term nerves), the rules were never sent to Congress for a required 60-day review - until February...