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According to the National Cancer Institute, almost 60,000 new cases were diagnosed in the United States in 2007, and there were over 8,000 deaths last year as a result of the cancer...
...Most often, the absence of a comp is simply a result of the realization that, with small membershipd, many publications simply cannot afford to discourage would-be contributors. “It’s only when you start growing as a larger organization that you have to start doing cuts,” says Thea L. Sebastian ‘08, founder and president of Freeze Magazine. “Before, we couldn’t really afford to have a comp at all. We are now transitioning into a full-fledged institution...
...rhyme silences that let you mull over the significance of his verses. This song finds him running this trick into the ground, as the audio equivalent of the gangsta stare becomes the stubborn old-man pause. If Cube and Chuck D were to get together again in 2008, the result would not be “Burn Hollywood Burn” or “Endangered Species” but “Darn You Youngsters and Your Silly Snap Dances and Video Games.” “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It” doesn?...
...settled nothing. In a result now achingly familiar to the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama split the popular vote 50.2% to 49.8%, by a margin so thin, you could barely slide a butterfly ballot betwixt. Tuesday slipped into Wednesday without anyone knowing for sure how many delegates each candidate had captured, as provisional ballots in New Mexico were slowly tabulated by hand...
...move their primaries forward. Far from being an afterthought as just about everyone had expected, they have the power to crown the winner. And if they don't? The decision may well fall to some 800 party insiders known as super-delegates. Yes, that's right: the perverse result of all this additional democracy, in which more people than ever before will have had a voice, could be that Democrats have to turn to old-style backroom politics to select a nominee...