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Those advanced standing students who want to take extra electives typically face a heavier course load, he adds. Advanced standing students are also at a disadvantage when they apply for fellowships, Buford says...
...that special. They are members of the large class of wealthy Americans who vote Republican and can back their votes with money. And because the tax and spending committees still must deliver large net savings, the Republicans' side deals mean that the burden of chopping the deficit is growing heavier on those Americans who have little influence on the party. Republicans, says Representative David Obey of Wisconsin, the ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, "are very good at taking on the poor and the lame, but not very good at taking on the muscle guys...
...among the former was, of course, Picasso, who emerged from the German Occupation of France an emblem of noncollaboration, a hero of the left and of artists in general. His bronze Death's Head, 1943, is the perfect image for the show's beginning: a cannonball of impacted death, heavier than any imaginable head. Massacre in Korea, 1951, asserts continuity by quoting Goya and thus morosely pointing out that the disasters of war only recur. The cluster of gun barrels leveled at the weeping women comes directly out of Goya's The Third of May. They are fantasy weapons, more...
...Heavier drinking, more than two to three drinks a day, increases the risk of death from other causes, such as breast and colon cancer, stroke, cirrhosis, accidents and suicide for women of all ages," Meir Stampfer, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said in an interview with the Harvard Gazette...
According to the findings, "for women as a group, light to moderate alcohol consumption confers a significant overall survival advantage. However, heavier drinking is associated with a substantiall increase in mortality," the researchers reported in last week's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine...