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Political consultants used to tell simple, childlike lies -- that their candidates were honest and hardworking and would get your laundry whiter than white. Now, of course, these flacks hold their client's opponent up before the cameras and assure us that if elected, he or she will cause the rapid onset of the next...
...four teens have used illegal drugs -- especially marijuana -- before entering high school, and the rate of drug use among American youth is "getting worse at a fairly rapid pace," according to a government report released today. The 52,000-student survey, performed for the Department of Health and Human Services by the University of Michigan, found the drug-using trend was accelerating fastest among pre-teens: 25 percent of eighth graders queried, for example, acknowledged using illicit drugs at some point in their lives (35 percent counting inhalants). The most striking finding: Admissions of marijuana use within the past year...
Harvard officials patted themselves on the back for a rapid response to the epidemic. The response required the coordination of dozens of administrators and staff from at least five different departments...
...from the upper class, and Pauline from the very lower-middle, as their respective accents demonstrate. In temperament, Lynsky is a perfectly sullen Pauline, flat-faced and brooding, while Winslet makes a high-strung Juliet, blonde and impulsive. Pauline's ubiquitous heavy awkwardness is less demanding than Juliet's rapid-fire swings from copious tears to maniacal happiness, but both Lynsky and Winslet manage to make their characters more than caricatures of polar emotion...
That did not stop the Serbs either. So U.N. military and civilian officials pleaded in rapid succession with Serb and Muslim leaders in Bosnia and with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. NATO officials in Brussels interrupted Thanksgiving Day to discuss a new U.S. proposal to defend Bihac, while U.N. officials claimed -- then unclaimed -- that they had mediated a cease-fire. When the Serbian artillery continued to pound Bihac on Friday in defiance of more U.N. warnings, NATO jets flew again, but darkness fell and the planes did not drop their bombs...