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...today, semi-automatic assault weapons are once again legal in the United States—and all Americans are less secure as a result...
...group is dressed in golden T shirts advertising them as team alice mills. They are here to watch Alice in her 200-m individual medley semi-final. In this same stand a few hours ago, when Alice qualified from the heats, her mother was trembling so much she couldn't operate her mobile phone to call her husband on the other side of the pool. "I had to push the buttons for her," says an Australian spectator. She's here for the big race, the men's 200-m freestyle, but she and her compatriots have adopted Alice...
...second semi of the women's 200-m medley has been run, and Alice's time places her 10th. She's missed out on the final by a quarter of a second. But the next Olympics are only four years away. The papers are already suggesting Beijing won't be ready, but it will be; and so will Alice, and so will everyone in her team. Tonight, as they head for the tavernas of the Plaka, there are thousands of them...
...unofficial groups such as fraternities, sororities or final clubs, McLoughlin said. In addition, student groups that are incorporated and have acquired their own not-for profit status will be encouraged but not forced to switch to HUECU. This category of not-for-profit groups includes the Harvard Lampoon (a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine), the Harvard Advocate, the Signet Society and the Harvard Glee Club...
From the day Jerry Conover started receiving Social Security checks five years ago, something gnawed at him. "I didn't need it to put food on my table," says the Denver semi-retired lawyer, 70. "And though I could've spread it amongst my 15 grandkids, they didn't really need it either." Conover had done very well as a trial lawyer, and he was working part-time as a mediator. He kept thinking there must be a better use for the money. Surely he wasn't the only person who could spare some of the dough in a monthly...