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...freshman year, I took six differentdepartment courses, so I wasted five electiveswhich they wouldn't let me count toward my corerequirements," says Matt S. Abramson '96, a finearts concentrator...
...operations so thoroughly that they never actually meet the seller. According to participants in the trade, couriers deliver the seller's metals and the buyer's cash to one of the Swiss banks specializing in the metals trade. There the metals are tested by an independent laboratory for atomic count and purity. If the metals are certified, the bankers hand them over to the buyer and deposit the cash in the seller's numbered account...
Nixon was right on the first count -- the only criticism of Blackmun at his confirmation hearings was that the Eighth Circuit judge worked too hard -- but wrong on the second. By the time "Old No. 3," as Blackmun called himself, announced his retirement last week, he had become the court's most reliable liberal voice. "This is a guy who came to the court thinking it was the role of the court to defer to government," says Yale law professor Harold Koh. But as Blackmun read the cases, he realized not all government was good. Only when a Democrat...
These days, of course, even multiple murderers are treated to the panoply of psychiatric do-gooding. So are compulsive gamblers, foot fetishists and people who still like Meat Loaf. Cigarette smokers are virtually the only addicts who can't count on federal help or sympathy. If only they were hooked on booze, say, they could receive official succor for crimes even worse than fouling the lungs of themselves and their loved ones. We don't know of one husband who battered his wife because he'd smoked too much that night. We haven't heard of any fatal car crashes...
...choice activists will no doubt breathe a sigh of relief, but I don't think I'll join them. Though I count myself as one of those in the middle in this debate, the sound of principles dying always depresses...