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...days just before and after high-sugar holidays like Halloween and Valentine's Day constitute a veritable sucrose feeding frenzy in schools. Many school clubs and organizations depend on the sale of overpriced candy bars and other sugar-laden snacks as a fund-raising tool. There is seldom a time during the school year when some group is not selling some sugary treat. And obviously, if students buy it, they're going to eat it. Richard Lee Hunter Spiro, Oklahoma...
...would think victory for the party might depend on the sort of unity that until recently seemed instinctive for the Bush Republicans. But hunger for a November landslide has not kept Democrats from flying off in a variety of ideological and strategic directions even as the G.O.P. was faltering. At a time when Democratic House candidates are finding that spending restraint resonates among voters and are running on fiscal discipline, many Democrats continue to support the President's deficit spending. Democrats were so split over Iraq that House minority leader Nancy Pelosi couldn't settle on any national leader...
...staff members were men. While the Freshman Union Committee offered to staff the library with volunteer freshmen after 10 p.m., Buck chose to simply use a reduced staff during the extended hours, saying at the time, “it isn’t fair to depend on anyone whom you don’t compensate...
...forced to give up options on some 190,000 shares of stock in the company that that he appears to have earned, according to ArmorGroup's 2005 annual report; at today's prices those options would be worth some $240,000. But their real value for Kappes would depend on their strike price-the report indicates they're currently trading below this level-and their value when they would become exercisable beginning in 2008 and 2009. ArmorGroup chief administrative officer Christopher Beese declined to discuss how Kappes and ArmorGroup might dispose of his options, though it appears likely he will...
...helping young people become health-conscious. I wish I had been offered healthful nutrition at my school. Jayanthiny Kangatharan Altena, Germany The days just before and after high-sugar holidays like Halloween and Valentine's Day constitute a veritable sucrose feeding frenzy in schools. Many school clubs and organizations depend on the sale of overpriced candy bars and other sugar-laden snacks as a fund-raising tool. There is seldom a time during the school year when some group is not selling some sugary treat. And obviously, if students buy it, they're going to eat it. Richard Lee Hunter...