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...fear not. Whatever you’re looking to get out of relationships at Harvard, The Crimson’s got your prude back(side) covered...
...Some fear that re-instating last year’s representatives—if only for a month—would give an advantage to incumbents during UC elections. Yet such concerns are outweighed by the importance of having a functional UC through September—one that can address student issues, provide immediate funding to student groups, and adequately represent the student body to the administration...
...very different story among Republicans. To be sure, there are honorable conservatives, trying to do the right thing. There is a legitimate, if wildly improbable, fear that Obama's plan will start a process that will end with a health-care system entirely controlled by the government. There are conservatives - Senator Lamar Alexander, Representative Mike Pence, among many others - who make their arguments based on facts. But they have been overwhelmed by nihilists and hypocrites more interested in destroying the opposition and gaining power than in the public weal. The philosophically supple party that existed as recently as George...
Nader Nadery, director of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, is skeptical. "On the surface, people say they will obey the warlords out of fear" in areas where rule of law is lacking, he says. "But when they know that ballots are secret, they will vote how they want to choose." Opinion polls show that 80% of Afghans have an independent voting attitude, he says, but laments the fact that "some leaders are stuck in the old ways of doing politics." (Check out a story about the warlords of Afghanistan...
...doctors' tendency to rely too much on high-tech testing? Just as patients feel better when they're getting scans and blood tests and all these things, I think the doctor has the same response. When you see that a patient is doing badly, a kind of low-level fear comes over a doctor, an anxiety that they're going to miss something. We feel that the tests are better than anything else we can do. And I just don't know that that's the case. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...