Word: faired
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...member of the Republican Club Board and a conservative, I think Wirzbicki couldn't be more wrong. Consistently conservatives are blitzed by liberal professors, teaching fellows, and classmates. The looks of utter disgust I received at the Freshman Activities Fair as I pleaded for people to sign up for the Republican Club would have constituted calls of "insensitivity" if I was representing a "minority" organization...
...patients and their doctors. In most states, HMOs are protected from liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), prevail in upcoming policy debates, the insurance companies? medical decisions will be fair game. Fierce anti-HMO public opinion and the AMA?s fat checkbook are making patients? rights more politically attractive than ever, and despite concerns that opening HMOs to expansive (and expensive) litigation would raise insurance costs, preliminary data from Texas shows virtually no increase in the number of medical lawsuits since...
Club officers seduced first-years at the activity fair by offering demonstrations and even juggling swords by request--a daring feat, considering the crowd of students clamoring for the sign-up sheet...
...states where the Reform Party is not slated already. If a candidate can get on enough ballots, then he's eligible for a national primary--an open-door affair in which any eligible voter who requests a Reform ballot can participate. On paper, at least, the rules are fair. But there's still room for mischief. Republicans or Democrats can sabotage the Reform Party's primary, flooding it with ballots in an effort to nominate someone who would most hurt their opponent...
...worst game on Sunday: Carolina vs. Cincinnati, two teams going nowhere and in a leisurely fashion. Both are equally bad, which means we shall fall back on the timeless advice of Mr. Ogden Nash: "If called by a Panther, don't Anther." Fair enough; take the Bengals and seven points...