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...legislature's decision to pass a bill, signed into law by Governor Jeb Bush last week, allowing virtually anyone who feels threatened at any time and in any place to whip out a gun and open fire. The law decrees that a person under attack "has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission...
Hughes lofted a high fly to short right field. Salsgiver camped under it and fired a strike to home plate, forcing Kutler to hastily retreat back to third. Mann fired to Zak Farkes, who slapped the tag down on a diving Kutler. The runner was called safe, though, much to the surprise of an incensed Farkes, who immediately argued the call...
...showing signs of slowing growth and oil-fueled inflation, a potentially dire duality. The Dow Jones industrial average, a daily vote on prospects, is filled with undecideds. The volatile Dow plunged early last week and then rallied for its biggest one-day gain in two years, only to retreat again at week's end. Far more certain are the critics who have begun maligning Greenspan's once unimpeachable record of low inflation, low unemployment and strong growth. In the view of that small but increasingly vocal group, the U.S.'s high consumer debt, low personal-savings rates, declining dollar...
According to faculty members who attended an SPH faculty retreat last month, Bloom said that he now finds the letter “hurtful and onerous” and that he hoped the letter would be retracted...
...management of the University and his comments on women in science. One faculty member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that other issues, such as the move to Allston and the management of the PEPFAR grant, have surfaced in these discussions, and more recently at the SPH faculty retreat the weekend...