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...exploring a number of different ways to address the financial situation.” Athletic officials noted that the MAC—“the University’s primary recreation facility,” according to its Web site—is a “popular?? facility for Harvard students who stay in Cambridge during June, July, and August. “Given how many students are on campus during the summer, they should really keep the MAC open,” said Jennifer J. Lee ’10, who said she frequented...
...Democratic congressional majorities in a generation (which are even larger when you consider that they do not include the “solid South” conservative Democrats of old), Barack Obama and his administration still lack sufficient votes just to bring urgently necessary—not to mention popular??legislation to a vote...
...high-profile, low-cost way for the Gingrich G.O.P. to distract the faithful while avoiding the hard choices about cutting multibillion-dollar entitlements that might really downsize the budget.” The NEA got cut off at the knees because it was easier—and much more popular??for House Speaker Newt Gingrich to blame Robert Mapplethorpe for our problems than actually to solve them...
Tapped in 2000 to serve as health minister by Mexico’s newly-elected president, Vicente Fox, Frenk embarked on a campaign to provide care for the 50 million Mexicans who, at the time, were uninsured. His efforts led to the establishment of the “Seguro Popular?? initiative, a public fund that paid for a number of health programs...
...coffee shops, and most of the teenagers I've talked to are quite similar to their American counterparts. However, some things provide sharp reminders that this is a foreign country. The food isn't terribly strange—kebabs, hamburgers, and open-faced, toasted subs called zapiekanki are popular??but Chinese food is generally regarded with suspicion and distaste, and Mexican food is unheard of. In the U.S., passing on a two-lane highway is a skill; here, it's a way of life, and darting in and out of the opposite lane is not at all unusual...