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...also co-authored the study, is hopeful that the legislation will pass despite these potential hurdles. “We need to shed light on an area that has been shrouded in secrecy for so long,” he said. “This is a bipartisan issue??actually, a nonpartisan issue.” Connolly said the legislation, which has the backing of cigarette maker Philip Morris, is expected to face opposition in Washington from some members of Congress and tobacco lobbyists. Some Republicans argued yesterday that the FDA was not the proper agency to regulate...
...packed crowd on this very campus and featured a number of the industry’s biggest names weighing in on the topic of hip-hop. Not surprisingly, we, as overzealous Harvard students, turned out in droves. But in places outside of liberal college campuses, the ‘issue?? isn’t really all that big a deal. And it was the interview with rapper Jadakiss—probably the least eloquent of the big-name artists featured in the film—that surprisingly issued the most important point: it’s just entertainment...
Jason C. B. Lee ’08, president of the Black Students Association, said the report has been a “non-issue?? on campus...
...with certain cultural values,” says Holden. “For instance…almost anybody in Russia can quote poems. They all know Pushkin poems by heart.” “I would assert that it’s partly an educational issue?? adds Vasiliauskas. “I think what education can do is to cultivate a willingness to slow down and to show that [poetry] is pleasurable.” However, despite their hopes for the future, many of these poets believe that poetry will never become a part of mass...
Other Houses have also had their share of fire extinguisher troubles. Residents of the Kirkland annex could not go back into their rooms because a prankster discharged a fire extinguisher last Friday night. Firefighters argued it was a safety issue??the powder given off by the chemical extinguisher is harmful, they say—but students, weathering 21-degree temperatures that night, disagreed...