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...meeting place, a French-speaking city whose picturesque 18th-century old town was denominated as a world heritage landmark by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, will be fenced off and guarded by phalanxes of police in riot gear. Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to descend upon Quebec City to vent their spleen at capitalism, globalization and the evils of free trade and to demonstrate their conviction that the FTAA will make things worse instead of better. A minority have vowed to shut down the meeting, in a replay of the chaos that beset...
...that time of year again. The snow is melting, spring break is right around the corner, and the most exciting three weeks in all of sports is about to descend upon us. I'm talking about the playoff-push in the XFL, of course...
President Rudenstine has given his response to the recent controversy over grade inflation. To comfort his people, our wary President speaks only in conclusions. He does not set forth his own view; he does not descend to facts and figures. He does not say anything that might be divisive or insensitive--not even to me. There has been no grade inflation from white guilt: That is his judgment, and it is to be accepted. Also and by implication, there is no grade inflation about which we should be concerned. The facts that every fourth grade at Harvard is a straight...
...panacea, of course. Electroshock's effects are short term, lasting weeks or months before depression can descend again. At $2,500 a treatment, it's also expensive, though insurance usually covers it. Antishock activists say it's just a cash cow for hospitals and that the response rates cited by the Surgeon General are inflated. In 1996, Lawrence of ect.org surveyed 41 former electroshock patients and found that 70% said the treatment had no effect on their depression. Joseph Rogers, executive director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, says 3 out of 4 of the electroshock patients...
...Unless Rodger's dead. The previews for next week indicate that for Kucha, a little real-life reality is about to descend upon this reality show, with tantalizing shots of splashing in the water and a black helicopter churning its blades in the dusty outback air. Elisabeth was taking it awfully hard, but was the non-swimming Rodger consoling her afterward - or beforehand...