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...What a contrast to the second semester of junior year, when she and Mark both studied in Oxford and lived three doors down from each other, a first test of their powers of cohabitation...
...curb demand and to make a real investment in alternative sources of energy. Since HR 6 does neither—it basically just ups subsidies for oil suppliers—the EIA’s findings should come as little surprise. Kerry’s energy proposal, by contrast, mandates both. Whether he would have the political conviction to see them through is another matter...
...camps: pragmatists and puritans. Pragmatists believe that resistance to student alcohol consumption is futile. College students are bound to drink no matter how high the penalties—better to do what you can to promote responsible drinking habits and provide safe environments for students to drink. Puritans, in contrast, take a dimmer view of underage alcohol consumption. The law says underage students shouldn’t touch fire water, and those who do will get burned...
...Klein stated that the republicans' strategy is to demolish Kerry, but all they are doing is attacking his policies, which are fair game during an election. Bush's rise in the polls following the convention showed that the criticisms of Kerry's policies hit their mark. Kerry, by contrast, responded to his falling poll numbers with brutal personal attacks on the President and Vice President, noting their lack of service in Vietnam. It is Kerry who is trying to demolish Bush over personal matters, not vice versa. But the personal attacks are counterproductive. Americans don't care much about military...
...case that men do much, much more housework than they did 30 years ago." New data from the Labor Department show that among married men and women ages 25 to 54, women who work full time spend an hour and a half a day on household chores, in contrast to just 45 minutes daily for working men. Still, viewed historically, this isn't so bad. Dads are actually spending about 50% more time on housework than they did 25 years ago, according to surveys by the Families & Work Institute. Men seem to be picking up, literally, where women are leaving...