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Rawlins' meteoric rise through the council's hierarchy--two terms as secretary and a term as the first popularly elected vice president--culminates this week in the biggest election of her political life: the race for president...
Benjamin R. Kaplan '99-'98 is not Yoda. He is neither short, green nor bald. He does not have pointy ears. But just as Yoda facilitated Skywalker's rise to stardom, Kaplan hopes to facilitate the fortunes of students by becoming president of the Undergraduate Council...
...possible that the increased popularity of marijuana is merely cyclical, part of the usual flux and reflux that have also seen harder drugs like cocaine and heroin rise in their allure for a time, and then decline when the consequences became more luridly obvious--only to rise again when a generational forgetfulness sets in and a drug's glamour could assert itself afresh. Indeed, today some experts are worried that an obsessive concern about marijuana may confuse overall perspectives. Says Mark Kleiman, a UCLA professor who specializes in national drug policy: "It's destructive to focus the country...
With the number of teenagers using marijuana on the rise, we asked some well-known experts and parents to answer the question, "What do you tell children about smoking marijuana...
...deadline to go public. On the plus side: unlike companies with no revenue and barely more than a product design, MoneyGram has a real business. Last year it earned $18 million on revenue of $137 million. Earnings are down a bit this year, but money transfers are on the rise. It has 16% of the worldwide nonbank consumer-money-transfer market. But Western Union, the granddaddy of the wire business, claims 81% of the market. "Our big concern is Western Union's dominance," says Travis Farr, analyst at IPO research firm Renaissance Capital. But market dominance is only the start...