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...after only one day home, Henry takes him to task, declaring that he is “still on the stairway,” and not yet able to mend his relationship with Jason. A large part of Turner’s reason for staying seems to be no nobler than his attraction to the madcap Danish nurse Katrina (Glenne Headly) hired by Jason to tend to Henry, nicely echoing the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in which she and Caine had an electrifying comedic dynamic...
...Harvard seniors Mike Morgalis and Trey Hendricks. Morgalis, the senior hurler from Cincinnati, and Hendricks, the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, spent the week toiling towards a much nobler goal—working injured Boston Red Sox superstar Nomar Garciaparra’s batting eye back to full strength...
...let’s not get carried away by conspiracy theories. The administration’s opposition to FDCs is surely driven by nobler aims. Testifying before Congress, the President’s Global AIDS Coordinator Randall L. Tobias, asserted that generic AIDS drugs “may well be perfectly safe and perfectly effective...and then again, they may not be. The problem is, there is no process, no principles, no standards in place today, from a regulatory point of view, to make that assurance.” A compelling argument, if only it were true. Tobias?...
...world about the alarming spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which caused Asia's horrific health crisis. He risked his life to raise public awareness of this deadly disease. Although the soldiers in Iraq bravely implemented a violent policy, Jiang courageously saved innumerable lives. His efforts served a nobler ideal than war. Robin Som London...
...simply, people here want to win. Coaches want to win. They want to win under a different set of rules than the ACC does, a nobler set, but they want to win nonetheless. Players want to win. They want more moments like women’s basketball’s upset of Stanford in the first round in ’98. They want baseball to make the College World Series one day and football to be able to prove itself beyond Harvard-Yale if its season has warranted it. They want basketball to make the NCAAs and win longer...