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...drug, alcohol, and other substance abuse, which represent an ongoing effort to update and clarify student-focused protocols. The review began last term after the school district began to publish its policies online. Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 explained that the review process has helped shed light on outdated aspects of the regulations. “When you clean it up you realize there is some messiness,” she said. But even with revisions that have come about thus far, Nolan said she thought the policies needed to be more supportive of students...
...fear of what the news might bring. It was the seventh straight day of declines for the Dow, driving the group of blue-chip stocks below 8,600, a level not broached in five years. Since the market's high - ironically enough, exactly a year ago - the Dow has shed nearly...
...Gist:In 2002 Rice, the queen bat of vampire fiction, shed her fangs and began writing books (two so far) about the life of Jesus. This memoir is Rice's attempt to explain her return to Christianity, moving from the idyllic New Orleans of her 1940s childhood to the renunciation of her Catholic faith - indeed, of all faiths - during her student years and after in 1960s San Francisco. Rice's reminiscences about her ensuing atheist period and the success of her decidedly irreligious vampire novels are tinged with some sorrow; she moves earnestly on to the 90s, years in which...
...leave deeper global economic wounds festering. "We're in the midst of a panic," says James Angel, professor of finance at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. Angel, who teaches a course on financial crisis, says that even the injection of federal dollars may not convince banks to shed their fears. "If banks go from being too reckless to being too conservative, there may be general starvation for the economy due to insufficient good credit...
...worse comes to worse, she says she will clear out her garden shed, toss out the toys ("The last batch of kids that went through here were my great-grandkids"), and pitch a tent in the back yard if the city lets her. "If God is with me, I'll be fine. The only prayer I want people to pray for me is that God will give me the strength to do what I have to do - no more that," she says...