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...editor of The Oxford Student, could decide to write a comparison of the different undergraduate experiences at Oxford and Harvard. Only one flaw in the plan: I have never been to Harvard, and so anything which I write can only be based on prejudice and disinformation, backed up with a video night spent with Good Will Hunting...
...noticed by moderate women voters. True, Bush made headlines with his nomination of the staunchly evangelical, antiabortion John Ashcroft for Attorney General and the decision not to provide taxpayer funds to develop additional fetal-stem-cell lines for medical research. But other moves barely made a ripple by comparison. A year ago, the Administration filed a brief supporting Ohio's partial-birth-abortion ban in an appellate court (not waiting, as it normally would, for the case to hit the Supreme Court). A few months later, it quietly removed from a government website information saying that abortions do not increase...
...industry type, who gets both support and agita from a headstrong wife and who wants to shield his son from his bloody business. If you infringed this closely on one of Tony Soprano's construction scams, your head would end up in a bowling bag. Zucker downplays the comparison, saying the show was inspired by a newspaper article about the cross-border drug trade. But David Mills, Kingpin's writer-creator, acknowledges that The Sopranos' success "allowed us to imagine that a criminal could be the protagonist in an hour drama. Without The Sopranos, I would not have dared...
...activities as walking, biking and aerobics for about 45 minutes a day. At the end of a year, the women had lost weight--a modest 3 lbs. on average--but, more important, C.T. scans showed they had lost up to 6.9% of the fat in their middles. Nonexercisers, by comparison, neither lost weight nor reduced intra-abdominal...
Your article on CEO pilots mentions the high cost of training and of renting a small plane, but there are much greater costs. I have had four colleagues who, along with their families, perished in crashes. By comparison, I have lost one friend in a car crash and none via commercial flights. All four of my pilot friends were qualified for night and bad-weather flights. Like J.F.K. Jr., too many small-craft pilots don't fly often enough to stay sharp, or they take off, bad weather or not, because plans were made and time is short. Give...