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...Allen Counter, director of the Foundation, said the annual dinner is important for acknowledging and celebrating the improvements Harvard has made in courting diversity...
...than steroid use is amphetamine use, which players take to stay energized and alert during night games. Possible side effects of this drug include an increased heart rate and blood pressure, restlessness, weight loss and heart failure. Ephedra, which has similar effects to amphetamines but is sold over-the-counter, can also be dangerous when taken before exercise, and was linked to the death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler earlier this year. One Orioles team doctor said, “It makes the heart beat faster, the blood vessels constrict. That poor kid cooked to death from the inside...
...somewhat firmer ground accusing Syria of developing weapons of mass destruction. But the charges aren't new. Damascus is known to have been stocking up on chemical agents for more than a decade to counter Israel's superior forces and nuclear bombs. But now Israeli intelligence claims Syria has a bigger stock of biochemical weapons than Iraq ever did. Since the beginning of the year, according to Israeli government officials, Israel has privately lobbied the Administration that this is one more reason to turn its attention to Syria after Iraq...
...Literature concentrator Alexander R. Jubinski ’03 hesitated as he stood over the C’est Bon counter to purchase a six-pack of Corona Light. “This is just going to slide down the gullet of some skank trotch-ho posthaste,” he reflected bitterly, descending into Blakean contemplation. “What immortal hand or eye or trotch could frame thy fearful symmetry...
...destruction of artwork. But people seem to have forgotten that the fall of Baghdad could very easily have been a horrific battle. Our perfect hindsight makes it easy to criticize the Coalition for not sprinkling a tank here and there to protect important museums; after all, a counter-attack never materialized. Yet these are not realistic demands, for isolated and charged with murky rules of engagement (is it okay to machine-gun a looter?), these tanks would have been too vulnerable to justify deploying them so precariously...