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CNN's coverage of last night's election was projected onto a big screen in Loker Commons, but only a handful of students seemed to care. Most were seeking assistance with their math homework, trying to focus as occasional shouts from party faithful broke their concentration. Many were first-years...

Author: By Toussaint Losier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Calmer Scene in Loker Commons | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

Insurers had poured money into the ultimately successful campaign to defeat Question 5. The committee organized to oppose the question raised $4.8 million to defeat the measure, mainly from a handful of the state's largest insurers. The measure's supporters raised less than $100,000.

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass. Voters Decide To Cut Taxes, Reform Health Care | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

The take-home lesson of the 1995 epidemic was simple: poor, under-resourced hospitals in which basic elements of public health are ignored serve as vectors for epidemics. There never would have been an Ebola epidemic in Kikwit had there not been a looted, decrepit hospital into which the first...

Author: By Laurie Garrett, | Title: Yet Another Ebola Lesson | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

Humanity should hang its head in shame for its collective responsibility for the recurrent senseless violence in the Middle East these past 50 years [WORLD, Oct. 16]. Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad would recoil at the sight of what their "faithful" followers are saying and doing, invoking their names for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 6, 2000 | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

Lee Atwater, the late maestro of hardball politics, had rules about down-and-dirty campaign advertising, among them this: if you have to do it, do it late. So right on schedule, gut-punching ads hit the airwaves last week in the handful of ground-zero states as both parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: In The Stretch: And Now for the Nasty Stuff | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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