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...characterized his proposed revisions as a power play, designed to strengthen City Hall's control over a wide array of programs and initiatives. As Giuliani conceded defeat, his Democratic foes were making gleeful predictions of the vote's effect on next year's Senate race, which is expected to pit the mayor against brand-new New Yorker Hillary Clinton...
...subject to government control. And while Americans in general appear reluctant to go down the road to so-called socialized medicine, there is growing public anger at the sky-high cost of many medicines. The President is well aware of this simmering resentment, and if he?s able to pit the Republicans against a move to control drug costs, he could do his own party a great deal of good. At the same time, says TIME national economic correspondent Adam Zagorin, the President should recognize that this is a highly nuanced issue, with voters aware that pharmaceutical companies need...
...Beth worries that Steve may have showed up in the Pit while they've been eating. Though she figures they could try to find him at Copley, she'd rather not have to. Steve is 20; Beth does not know his last name. They met this summer, just hooked up last night for the first time. She urges Carrie to finish and they hurry back to the Pit...
...Heading back to the Pit, Carrie spits her soda against the windows at Abercrombie and Fitch. Then she has to go home. Beth and Max settle into the granite bleachers by themselves. Beth is not having a good day. Her friend Ingrid won't admit that she's mad at her, but Beth was supposed to go hang out at her house after school and Ingrid left without her. And Beth wrote her a letter that Ingrid never responded to. Worse, Steve's friends have been giving him shit about fooling around with a 15-year-old, and Beth...
...Charles supplement you'll see tomorrow was also an FM production), its two associate editors jumped ship to hang out with some kiddies. And though continuing my residence in Dunster House, I left most other aspects of my college life behind as well. I chilled in the Pit. I tramped through the Yard with people not wearing cargo pants, button-downs or DHA sweats. I passed people I knew who didn't even register my presence, what with the posse of homies I was traveling with. A boy named Crazylikes wanted to know...