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Warm weather teams have the biggest advantage of all. Harvard’s first opponent, Rice, on March 16, has been practicing in the Texan sun for most of the winter. Plus, Ivy League restrictions that prohibit play until the middle of March mean that the Owls will have some 20 games more of experience...
...doctors while the nation is preoccupied with international events is especially alarming. Oregon is the only state that has passed a law legalizing assisted suicide and Ashcroft seems to want to make the state an example so others will not follow suit. So far, the other 49 states prohibit doctors from dispensing controlled substances for the purpose of ending a patient’s life. Oregon became the exception in 1994, when 51 percent of the state’s voters approved a referendum establishing the state’s Death with Dignity...
Generally accepted accounting principles prohibit firms from using their rising stock price as a form of income. But that’s exactly what some of these shell companies were designed to do. As the report states, the transactions were just “transfers of economic risk from one Enron pocket to another, apparently to create income that would offset [losses] on Enron’s income statement...
Since Chelsea club rules prohibit players from going out drinking within a 48-hour period before a match, Terry and Morris were each fined two weeks' wages - the maximum permitted in a standard player contract. This was not the first time the players had violated club rules: Terry and Morris were fined after a drinking spree near Heathrow Airport on Sept. 12, during which they were accused of offending American tourists stranded in the wake of the previous day's terrorist attacks. In the program notes for a game after last Wednesday's court hearing, Chelsea chairman Ken Bates encouraged...
First, some schools offer early action but prohibit students from applying early to more than one school. This curtails student choice unnecessarily, and again favors colleges over students. The only acceptable early action system is one that allows students choice at all points during the admissions process...