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Harvard's first-ever loss to Columbia on Saturday brought about the same, immediate knee-jerk reaction from many parties: Harvard should plummet in the rankings and miss the tournament...
This commitment to universal health care shows that Canadians inhabit a very different political space than Americans do. If Canada were to abolish Medicare, tax rates would plummet, the Canadian government would run absurd surpluses and the level of care for some would definitely rise. Individuals would feel like they're benefiting until they had to pay hospital bills; the economy would certainly conform more to that of a capitalist democracy. Yet Canadians tend to agree that the society would suffer as a whole if Medicare were abolished. For us, the benefits of universal free health care aren't entirely...
...Street's pundits was willing to declare the end of the slide, the lately ailing indexes were all in the black, with NASDAQ soaring a fabulous 241 points (almost 8 percent, the second best of all time) and the Dow regaining 157 of its 379-point Thursday plummet. It was the right sort of rally, steady and uninterrupted, and it's sure tempting to look at the previous sessions' new lows - 3074 for the NASDAQ and 10,034 for the Dow - as the floor we've been looking...
...least twice during the entirety of their school years. In contrast, the Bush education initiative requires that states test their students each year to ensure quality education at every grade level. Gore's weak-hearted proposal leaves a dangerous time gap between optional testing, allowing standards of learning to plummet dramatically with no means of catching the fall until at least four years later. Under the Bush plan, performance problems can be discerned and strengthened within the year, assuring an environment of success, not mediocrity...
...population growth in some of these nations to zero, and the population in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa will actually start to decline. Life expectancy by the end of the decade would normally have been about 70 in this part of Africa; as a result of AIDS it will plummet to 30. Said the Census Bureau's Karen Stanecki at last week's 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa: "It is hard to comprehend the mortality we will see in these countries...