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Candidates are reluctant to say that--advocating the return of rent control is a popular stance--but the likelihood of rent control making a comeback as a galvanizing issue is faint. And while there was an effort to get a rent-control initiative on the ballot, even rent control advocates admit its only purpose was to get people to the polls...
...without a mirror. Surely they will learn how to guzzle the Dark and Stormy, the drink of choice for the Kroks when they visit Bermuda, which they do every spring break. They will learn how to make audiences laugh and how to raise hairs on spines. But in all likelihood, they won't really learn what it is they have done, what they have become, until years later, when they are no longer young, charming, and naive. The mantle will long have been passed to new generations of Harvard men. It is the Harvard story, for though undergraduates in Cambridge...
...focus of the weekend centered on Iona. The victory over the Gaels assured Harvard its Northern Division Championship seeding and, in all likelihood, a loss would have negated any momentum built by the other four victories...
Nichols began calling pharmaceutical houses in the U.S. and Europe, telling them that if they started making sulindac it would save thousands of lives. But it was about to come off patent, and as a generic drug it didn't offer much of a payoff because of the likelihood of competitive products and lower prices. Moreover, FAP--Nichols' cancer--is a so-called orphan disease, afflicting only 25,000 Americans, so there wasn't much of a market for it. Thanks, but no thanks, the drugmakers said...
...reduce East Timor to a state of anarchy to cancel out entirely the result of the referendum. "The military feels insulted," says Harry Tjan Silalahi, a think-tank director in Jakarta. "Some may want to restore order, but those in the field have a much different purpose." In all likelihood, each of these explanations added a sliver of sick truth to East Timor's fate...