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...because what shoots up seems always to drift back down, I postpone such long-term decisions for quick fixes that allow me to linger in denial. My best trick so far is to set a dollar limit every time I open my gas cap. The idea is always to spend the same amount--$50, say--and drive as far as I can on what it buys me, even if it's not as far as yesterday. That gambit works well for a week or two, I find, but then it gradually stops working because of the same sort of sloppy...
...many families in Baghdad, the only way to deal with those dangers is somehow to limit exposure to them. People venture outside only to replenish dwindling supplies of food, cooking gas and fuel for generators. Some Iraqis no longer send their children to school. The only new freedom they can savor is access to satellite television...
...other respects, the pass/fail system would remain entirely the same. The College could still impose a limit of one pass/fail class a semester, and professors could still exercise their right to disallow pass/fail students in their classes. For those students who use the pass/fail option to avoid doing work—and we all know they exist—the ability to reverse their decision would only add to the incentive to strive for success. (Allowing the reverse, that is for students to change grades into Ps, would weaken the incentive for success...
...city council gets down to business, it opens the floor for public comment. During this period, any Cantabrigian may address the council for three minutes about any item on that day’s agenda. A core group of persistent citizens stretch this rule to the limit every week to advocate for the environment, defend the rights of the disabled, and expose abuses of power...
...Haddock said. “I think the UC’s restructuring decision is not what the student body wants.” THE UC GETS RELIGION At Monday’s meeting, the UC also voted to fund events sponsored by student groups that limit membership or officership on the basis of gender or religion. Haddock had ruled the previous week that the bill to amend the council’s nondiscrimination policy had not garnered the requisite two-thirds majority. But in what Haddock described as a “parliamentary twist,” a further...