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...with clinically low levels take suppplements. Lately testosterone has gained popularity as a youth boost for both men and women. A new topical formulation, marketed as AndroGel, will make it easier for legitimate users to take the hormone. AndroGel may also expand its use for medically dubious reasons...
...have made a great deal more of this story than need be," she said pointedly, glaring at her audience. One corps member felt brave enough to bring up the subject of Zoe Baird, a Clinton nominee for attorney general, who lost that bid because of her own dubious hiring practices - and who was also criticized at the time by Chavez. The departing nominee brushed off the analogy, but others point out that Chavez's outrage at Baird's hiring of an illegal immigrant seems at least mildly hypocritical at this point...
...reverse. I am admitting to good evaluations received sneakily. After early struggles with students who resisted challenges and barked at any criticism, who refused to regard themselves as beginners or who were furious if I didn't regard their short stories as brilliant, I stumbled upon some dubious teaching techniques, reversed the criticisms of these chronically unhappy students and improved my student evaluations for the semester. My record would reflect a smart, attentive, encouraging teacher. But I would argue that I taught these students little. They loved me because I agreed that writing should be easy...
...soon to know how the reputation of the court as a whole, and the individual Justices, will ultimately be affected by Bush v. Gore. But one thing is clear: the court has demonstrated in the past that it is fully capable of reasoning its way to dubious decisions. As Chief Justice Robert Jackson once wrote, in a bitter dissent of his own: "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final...
...thus that I have been entrusted with the dubious honor of writing the last Crimson column of the true millennium, a column whose subject is at the same time pre-determined and obsolete, a column of exactly one thousand words that will drop instantly from our printing press to our archives to blessed obscurity, as no one reads The Crimson on the last day before Winter Break. (Including...