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After a while, that little icon becomes less an option than a command. Refresh! Refresh! Refresh! You hit the button, take a big info swig and are left thirstier than you were before. It's the pause that doesn't refresh and the refresh that never pauses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '08: The Media's 24-Minute News Cycle | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...student with a disability. Case law has dictated that, if an administrator or school decides that the public school is incapable of doing so, then the student may enroll in a more suitable private school at the expense of the government. The current problem is that this option is entirely under-funded; the federal government was originally set to pay 40 percent of the cost but currently only pays 17 percent. The onus then falls on individual schools and states to meet rising costs of education in a time when exponentially more students are being diagnosed with special needs.Palin promised...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Crucial Needs | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...percentage points closer than the polls, putting McCain theoretically within striking distance in the past week. "It's do or die - this is his last stand, because he's got no other place to go ... This is a forced choice. This is not an option," said pollster and political analyst G. Terry Madonna of Franklin & Marshall College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How McCain Thinks He Can Win Pennsylvania | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...China policies, such as direct transportation links. "Ma will be more cautious" in the wake of the large rally, says Yang Tai-shuenn, a political science professor at Taiwan's Chinese Culture University. However, "the only hope for Taiwan's economy is China. Ma has no option but to rely more on China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan President Faces Growing Opposition | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

...Kopolovich came in he was going to run the ball,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “What had us on our heels was that their offensive line did a great job, their backs run hard, and they just did a great job executing their option offense, starting with the running back, the tailback.”Something had to change at halftime, and change it did, as the Crimson recovered from its early struggles to limit the Tigers’ attack, especially in the fourth quarter. Princeton still managed to move the ball at will...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SIDEBAR: D-Line Surges in Second Half | 10/26/2008 | See Source »

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