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...Reduction Act. The measure removes incentives for pharmaceutical companies to provide contraception to university health centers and low-income community clinics at sharply discounted prices. Removing this incentive caused drug companies to begin selling the contraceptives at open market prices, and forced university and community health centers to either pass the increase in cost on to patients or stop carrying prescription contraception altogether. This is the case at our own University Health Services-affiliated pharmacy—though most students were switched to cheaper generic forms of oral contraception, those students on drugs with no generic equivalent have...
...first, Vendler said, she didn’t find it unusual that Yeats would adopt varying poetic forms, such as sonnets or ballads; indeed, she said, many poets do. But in the end she found his use of varied poetic forms was too important to pass over...
...would-be peacemakers bask in the international limelight of the Annapolis conference, back in the Middle East two other parties are serving up notice that no deal will come to pass, if they can help it: Iran and its Palestinian ally, Hamas. "The Annapolis conference was already a failure," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told journalists after a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday. The U.S. could sponsor a hundred such meetings, he added, and the result would be the same. In Gaza, which is effectively ruled by the fundamentalist Hamas group, anti-Annapolis protesters filled the streets. "They...
Gutierrez says he'll keep coming back as long as it takes to get the votes for the controversial trade deal to pass. "It's not fair to the American people and it's not fair to the people of Colombia to make a decision [on the FTA] without coming here," the former CEO of Kellogg said as the van sped through the Colombian countryside. Most visiting lawmakers have remained noncommittal about their positions on the Colombia FTA, and Gutierrez says he does not press them to take a stand. But, he says, there's a "definite shift in attitude...
...efforts from starting guards junior Drew Housman and sophomore Jeremy Lin to slow down Gilchrese and Gibbs. Lin had a memorable performance the last time the two teams met. With the game tied at 81-81 in the final minute of overtime in Durham, he stole a Wildcats inbounds pass, then drove for a lay-up with 23.8 seconds left to secure the key non-conference victory early in the season.This will be the second home game of the season for the Crimson. In its opener, Harvard ran away from Mercer in a surprising 91-73 win. The Bears knocked...