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Even with second semester in full swing, students who leave campus early to study abroad may have to contend with more than just culture shock. Of the 91 students who are spending their spring semester abroad, some are forced to take their finals in absentia...
...legislation, says the group's CEO, Julie Johnson, would require more than 300 products containing pseudoephedrine to be kept behind counters. The National Association of Chain Drug Stores warns that customers would have fewer choices of brands and longer waits in line, while big retailers would have to contend with a patchwork of confusing state laws. That is already true: at least 11 states have enacted some restraints. Meanwhile, some retailers are voluntarily restricting sales. Wal-Mart, for instance, limits customers to three boxes of products containing pseudoephedrine...
...realize anything was amiss until six days later when he went to a dentist with what he thought was a nagging toothache. It took surgeons four hours to extract the nail, which had penetrated his brain. The uninsured Lawler is expected to make a full recovery but now must contend with the headache of a $100,000 medical bill...
...nature of the event necessarily limits the Council’s ability to inquire into shows’ and movies’ content with extensive thoroughness or to censor controversial material within a given screening, and few if any undergrads who have taken advantage of these events would contend that this should prohibit the Council from fulfilling its mission and responsibility to provide such services to the student body. When Fox Broadcasting Company contacted the Council to suggest that Harvard students be offered the chance to see episodes of the show “24” prior...
Democrats have darker views of Bush's motives, saying it has been a long-standing Republican goal to dismantle the vestiges of the New Deal and the basic contract it struck between the government and its citizens. They also contend it is perfectly in keeping with everything they know about Bush that he would create the mirage of pending catastrophe to achieve that goal. "We have an Administration that falsely hypes almost every issue as a crisis," the liberal lion Edward M. Kennedy said in a speech last Wednesday, which happened to be the same day the Washington Post...