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...findings, Mayor Adrian Fenty acknowledged that elected officials must shoulder responsibility for educating the public about the scope of the epidemic and its attendant risks. But he also lamented the public's unwillingness to confront the disease. "You have this problem affecting us, and you tell people how serious it is, and it literally goes in one ear and out the other," Fenty told the Washington Post. Let's hope this fresh batch of staggering statistics will shock Washingtonians - and the rest of us - into using proper protection...
...found a need for more social spaces on campus. The limited availability of common spaces for meetings, events, or just relaxing is truly detrimental to social life on campus. We agree with the suggestions of more grilles, theaters, and gyms and hope that these types of spaces are given serious consideration in renovation plans...
...officious mother (Nancy E. Carroll). The standout performance, however, is given by Philana Mia as Kalina, the young Eastern European girlfriend of Clay’s obnoxious brother, Cash. Her warm presence onstage allows her to alternate effortlessly between her character’s comedic and serious moments. Kalina is tender and loving, if at times offensive (she makes one particularly awkward comment about exterminating the gypsies, like they did with the Jews). In spite of these moments of bigotry, Mia makes Kalina’s lines the most heartfelt ones in the play.The set, designed by Cristina Todesco...
...political wisdom in Washington suggests that for any proposal to actually stand a chance, it would have to build on the existing employer-based system. For much the same reason, few believe that "single payer" health care - a government-financed system similar to Medicare - will be given any serious consideration. As one Administration official put it in describing the Wyden plan, "A lot of people think this is where the system should be 20 years from now, but no one sees how it can be there two years from...
...share opinions and in many cases literary creations. "I still recall my astonishment when I read my first online novel some 15 years ago on a BBS," says Zhang Kangkang, a renowned novelist and vice chairwoman of the Chinese Writers Association. "It was then that I realized how serious and creative the so-called online literature can be." Although largely substituted now by social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in the West, the BBS still prevails in China today as a relatively free place to express dissidence, while no such leeway is allowed in the traditional media. The same...