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While American consumers have started to take notice, we still aren’t internalizing the full cost of our dirty little habit. That’s because our government subsidizes the oil companies big time—a topic certainly on the agenda during Cheney’s backroom meetings in 2001—which helps keep the price of gas down at the pump. Whether it’s gas prices or tax dollars, American consumers have to pay the piper either way. The problem is that most people don’t make the connection; whereas higher...
...back matchup of Harvard’s Clifton Dawson and Brown’s Nick Hartigan. But it may end up being quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick who steals the show when Harvard takes on the Bears at Brown Stadium in Providence, R.I. After all, he’s made a habit...
...securing an election would require more troops. In the best case scenario those would be newly-minted Iraqi troops or soldiers sent from other foreign countries, but he couldn't discount the possibility that more Americans may be needed. Pitched battles in rebel-held population centers also have a habit of turning the neutral civilian population against the U.S. and its Iraqi allies, as the experience of Najaf and Fallujah have shown. Then again, the risk of not holding the election on schedule may be even greater, since Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, spiritual leader of the majority Shiite community...
Hoping to halt that habit, John Sasso, a hard-nosed party veteran, has taken up residence on Kerry's campaign plane. Sasso's job is to help target Kerry's wandering message and keep him from going wobbly. Sasso, who oversaw the beginning and the end of Michael Dukakis' ill-fated 1988 campaign, was sent aloft, as one ally put it, because the campaign lacked a Kerry peer who could tell the candidate when and where to get back in line. Although his odds are longer now, Kerry has plenty of time to turn it around, and he can take...
...housing be substance free for at least a few months before starting the program, Case has no sobriety minimum. Indeed, a Recovery House resident admits that he had his last drink as recently as Aug. 1. The only requirements Case imposes are that students be serious about kicking their habit and agree to attend regular support-group meetings. Andy, 20, a former fraternity president, is thrilled to be free of the "distractions" that led him to fail most of his classes last semester. "When [pot] is in your face all the time, it's easy to get caught...