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...school is meant to serve as a surrogate guardian of students during the school day while students’ parents are at work, but this policy works to undermine the authority of the parents. By allowing these teen and pre-teen students to receive these contraceptives—which can cause hormone levels to fluctuate and facilitate unprotected sexual contact—the school is in practice betraying the trust placed in it by the parents of its students. While this action would be permissible in a private school, the fact that the school where this program is being enacted...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Contraception In Middle School? | 10/21/2007 | See Source »

...have stopped, but he had this controlled descent. And then we said, ‘Well, that’s gonna go in it.’”Collective cinema or not, Anderson has certainly established his own style of movie making—the pre-planned details, the free-formed production style, the collaborative process, the fictional realism. We know what it ends up looking like on film, but do the many parts of the Anderson machine build towards making or spreading a bigger message? Perhaps. He used the example of sand dunes that...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEEP FOCUS: The Darjeeling Limited | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...city called the Brigade of Hussein, named after the 7th Century Shi'ite martyr Imam Hussein, the central figure of Shi'a Islam. The group claimed responsibility for the recent attack on the Polish ambassador in Baghdad, a coordinated ambush that included a series of timed explosions and pre-planned gunfire that wounded the ambassador and killed one of his security guards. In Diwaniyah, locals say these armed groups may focus their attention on the local Polish base in the city in an effort to push the Coalition out of the city. That's just what the militias did with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraqi Violence Moves South | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a horrible blunder. As bad as Saddam Hussein was, it is impossible to believe that the Iraqi people are better off now than before our invasion. It is our shame that we have granted asylum to so few refugees. The President's pre-emptive war of choice must be judged by history as a crime against a people who did us no harm. James G. Whiteley Sr., Paducah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...rainy, frigid Sunday night more suited to a whaling expedition: after Torrealba's three-run homer in the sixth inning unstuck a 1-1 nail biter, the next Rockie up, Jeff Baker, lined a single. Then he tried to steal second base. Hurdle had sent a subtle pre-Series message to the American League: We never rest, we never quit, no matter the circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mile-High Momentum | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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