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...hard--as it should--on companies that sell narcotics like Percocet and OxyContin on the Web. And the agency has been conducting spot checks on pills shipped from overseas that have not been approved for use in the U.S. Some drugs sent from Canada also may not pass FDA muster, according to Mary Wiktorowicz of York University's School of Health Policy and Management, who warns that Canada's system for vetting new drugs is becoming more like those used in Britain and France, where recalls of new drugs are four times as high...
Connelly's Kathy may be flaked out, but she has the kind of self-destructive strength such people can muster when they are fighting for the shreds of their history, their last hope of respectability. Kingsley's work as the colonel is simply astonishing, just possibly the performance of the year. He's a prissy, legalistic sort of man who feels that his hope of claiming a corner of the American Dream is being savaged by a crazy lady. And his growing rage, made the more terrible by his effort to control it, is harrowing to behold...
Harvard was able to stay close to the Catamounts for most of the second half due to its stifling defense and the offensive contributions of sophomore forward Matt Stehle. Stehle scored 11 of his team-high 13 points in the second half. The rest of the team could only muster nine second-half points collectively...
...representative during the last general election was elected with two or three dozen first-place votes out of a turnout of about 100. A suitably intransigent voting bloc could collude to keep their favored representative in office even if the majority of the district desired otherwise, but could not muster the requisite supermajority...
Harvard could not muster a run as the second half drew to a close and was unable to narrow the Florida St. advantage to single digits in the last four minutes of the game...