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Kishline's devastating meltdown has reignited debate, and outrage, over an already controversial treatment approach. Moderation Management, which has volunteer chapters in 14 states, allows a weekly quota of nine drinks for women and 14 for men. Designed for mild-to-moderate problem drinkers, the program consists of meetings similar to those of Alcoholics Anonymous, but it has fewer rules. Participants are usually encouraged to keep a journal documenting their drinking and to limit and pace their intake of alcohol. Understandably, and perhaps wisely, since she faces sentencing next month for vehicular homicide, Kishline is now a sharp critic...
...even affirmative action created tensions. Burton says that many students assumed that most African-Americans got into Harvard because of a quota, not because of merit...
...think the ratio of Harvard guys to Radcliffe girls was about 17 to 1," Beutler says. "I certainly got my quota...
This Dreamworks claymation film hopes to take kids to Tweedy's Chicken Farm, where any hen that doesn't make her egg quota can meet a "fowl" fate. Ginger and her fellow hens, with the help of Rocky, a Yankee rooster, hatch a plan of escape before they end up fried. This send-up of the classic Steve McQueen film, The Great Escape, features more cool animated effects from the England-based Aardman Animations, the Academy Award-winning team behind the popular "Wallace and Gromit" shorts; Chicken Run marks their first full-length claymation feature. With Disney releasing its summer...
...time summer rolls around, the schools escalate their efforts with phone calls. Each program is permitted to make one phone call per week, and coaches tend to fill that quota each week during this portion of the recruiting period...