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...drinking, eating, gambling. Two to three percent of the population are going to be compulsive and excessive, and that does not give you a true measure. It’s a great argument for people who want to oppose gambling, or oppose legalized prostitution, which is the oldest profession in the world and should be legalized. It would provide the government a means of taxation, and I think it would drastically reduce venereal disease and also the amount of sexual assault and rape cases. But no one in politics wants to talk about legalized prostitution. They?...
Kappa is one of the oldest and largest sororities, boasting over 130 chapters and five Ivy League chapters, including one at Yale...
...medical career, had already gone to some lengths to ensure that Nava was properly launched in her new status, compiling a booklet for her of rabbinical sayings, family aphorisms and his own thoughts about relationships and marriage. But he was determined to fit in one more chat with his oldest girl before she stepped beneath the bridal huppah. He had said she was the only one of his six children to whom he had never had to raise his voice--the challenge now was getting a hearing in the midst of the prenuptial frenzy...
...attack on Dean was similarly transparent but not as amusing as the debate performances. Demographically, Iowa is among the oldest of states. In the past Dean had been typically frank about old-age entitlements. He had supported raising the age of eligibility for Social Security, and moving away from Medicare's costly fee-for-service medicine toward managed care. These were plausible, even noble positions, but he had taken them in typical Deanian fashion, by wildly overstating the case. Medicare, Dean told the Associated Press in 1993, was "one of the worst things that ever happened ... a bureaucratic disaster...
...Nieman Foundation has offered fellowships for mid-career journalists since 1938, and more than 1,000 journalists have studied at Harvard with the program. The Nieman Foundation also publishes Nieman Reports, the oldest magazine that focuses critically on professional journalism...