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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last Thursday’s debate, both sides faced tough questions from the IOP Fellows in an effort to inform their undergraduate peers on the main issues being tackled by candidates. Former Democratic Governor of New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen kicked off the event, reminding the debaters to “keep it civil.” Members from both sides relied heavily on impassioned political rhetoric to suggest just how much weight is resting on the election’s outcome. Grandiose statements like Krahel’s “America’s best days are ahead...
...combination of non-vitamin dietary supplements and prescription medicines is often dangerous, but many patients fail to inform their healthcare provider that they are taking the supplements, according to a study published last month by researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
...Waddah's fourth week of captivity, one of the interrogators went down to his cell to inform him they had made some progress in contacting his family. Waddah had given them names of family members in Fallujah and Ramadi, along with directions to their homes. One of the addresses in Ramadi had checked out, and the person who lived there--an old friend who Waddah believed had been a fighter in an insurgent group--had agreed to find a phone number for his family. The interrogator said "our people in Baghdad" were also looking for Waddah's home...
...alienated the majority of campus who might be sympathetic to a civil discussion about when life really begins. Very few people argue that abortion would be okay if it was actually killing a person; the debate is deeper and more intricate, and HRL decided simply to incite rather than inform or create dialogue...
...their arguments. Though inducing others to join a cause through rallies and protests may seem the revolutionary, “cool” thing to do—a throwback to the ’60s—to Harvard students and administrators it seems patronizing. Lectures, debates, discussions, informational flyers, and even tabling in a dining hall do far more to legitimate a group and inform others...