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...counselors for crisis hotlines; while this would be appreciated, there are other important ways to help. But we all can make a difference on campus, from the most dramatic action of final clubs co-sponsoring seminars on sexual assault to women speaking out on their own experiences to the modest action of telling your friend he’s done for the night and it’s time for him to go home alone...
...back up above zero, and by fall, third-quarter profits and production may start to look rosy again. At which point companies will start hiring again, and consumers will feel secure again, and by the beginning of the following year the economy should be chugging along again at a modest-but-welcome 3 percent...
Multivitamins are no substitute for exercise and a balanced diet, of course. But it's hard to be healthy all the time. As long as you understand that any potential benefit is modest and subject to further refinement, taking a daily multivitamin makes a lot of sense...
...this laxness toward immigration fraud may be about to change. Congress has already taken some modest steps. The U.S.A. Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the Sept. 11 tragedy, requires the FBI, the Justice Department, the State Department and the INS to share more data, which will make it easier to stop watchlisted terrorists at the border. And since the September attacks, the INS has started feeding into the FBI's crime database information about aliens who have received final deportation orders but failed to show up for their exit trips; so if they show up in the legal...
...There she was, the first First Lady to mix it up with Tim Russert, not to mention with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, over whether the President was put on earth to lead us after 9/11 (intermittently Rudy's Catholic view of his mayorship) or whether God is less specific (her modest Methodist take). The least ambitious First Lady in recent memory, save perhaps Mamie Eisenhower, Mrs. Bush recalls the pact she made upon her engagement: she would join her husband on his daily jogs; he would never ask her to give a speech. "We're even now," she says...