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...ahead while a highly infectious disease restricts the movement of people as well as livestock. Draconian slaughter, perhaps, could contain and defeat the infection before May. But Labour's strength among rural voters, never great, had diminished over the party's drive to ban fox hunting and will plummet further with the cull. "There will be many tears in the British countryside today," said Ben Gill, president of the National Farmers Union. "Our farms should be starting to jump to life with newborn lambs and calves. Instead, many will feel that spring has been canceled, and their farms are simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portraits of Plague | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...this time the comeback kid isn't coming back so quickly. His approval ratings have dropped 10 points since the Rich scandal and continue to plummet. And without an overzealous prosecutor or "vast right-wing conspiracy" to vilify, he doesn't have many cards left to play...

Author: By Alexander S. Grodd, | Title: Clinton's Rich Legacy | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...been waiting patiently for the day when Brooke Lampley would be single again. Drop-dead beautiful, talented, intelligent, funny and stylish, she cuts her own path wherever she goes. The problem, of course, was that she was attached-and that, as we all know, makes your stock plummet. Well, now she's not. And thus buzz is spreading. Let the wooing begin...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

Implementing democratic elections is necessary in order for the IOP to reach as many students as possible. The IOP's mission is to inspire undergraduates to pursue careers in politics and public service, but the old system has caused student participation to plummet. The number of students attending meetings or events at the IOP has been steadily decreasing for the past five years. Because under the old system student leaders were chosen in an undemocratic and somewhat secretive process, many students were discouraged from taking part in the leadership...

Author: By Rebecca C. Hardiman, | Title: Tough Medicine for the IOP | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

Harvard did plummet in the latest National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll, right behind--you guessed it--Brown and Boston College, two teams that did not make the tournament. Luckily for Harvard, a poll did not determine its NCAA fate...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don't Fear De Remer: Sorry Brown, You Should've Seen it Coming | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

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