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Last April, when spring practices rolled around, a casual observer might have noticed surprisingly few familiar faces in the Crimson wide receiver corps. Gone was James Harvey, shifted over to defense to shore up a weakened Harvard secondary. Gone was Rodney Byrnes, ineligible to play to due academic reasons...
...fire up some consumer spending, but not enough to add jobs, and would worsen the deficit. "We can't afford them anymore," says Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One. Shrinking the deficit or making big changes to the health-care system, the experts say, would do more to shore up business confidence and boost hiring...
...child into the world. Of course, lust enters into it too, and ignorance and sometimes mixed drinks, but a parent is, ex officio, a believer in the fundamental goodness of life. In a world of superstition, cruelty and despair, there is also friendship, fresh sweet corn, theater, the North Shore of Lake Superior, so many delightful things that tip the balance. Is this not so? The parent prays that it is so. I hear my daughter in the yard, laughing. She is on a swing, swinging so high that her head hits the leaves of the apple tree...
...acute pancreatitis that flattened him in Sydney last week. Centered in the stomach and seeming to bore through to the spine, the pain of the ailment is "among the most severe . . . it can be overwhelming," says Ross Smith, associate professor of surgery at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. Lying down worsens the agony; only doubling over offers any relief until painkillers take effect...
...emergence of Khan's network reflects the challenges the U.S. still faces in Afghanistan as the U.S. struggles to hunt al-Qaeda's leaders, disarm Afghanistan's warlords and shore up President Hamid Karzai against a revived Taliban-led insurgency. The renewed trade in opium has worsened all those problems. The World Bank calculates that more than half of Afghanistan's economy is tied up in drugs. The combined incomes of farmers and in-country traffickers reached $2.23 billion last year--up from $1.3 billion in 2002. Heroin trafficking has long been the main source of funds for local warlords...