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...ring up your physician for a Provigil prescription, there are several things you need to know. This is not a drug you take just because you've got a paper due tomorrow or a long drive ahead. Like all other drugs, Provigil has side effects. The most common short-term effect is headache, though some folks have reported nausea and anxiety too. It may also make birth control pills less effective. And no one knows what the long-term effects may be. Indeed, researchers aren't even sure what the drug does to the brain on a biochemical level...
...factor is that successive American administrations have consistently shown a poor sense of geopolitics and have never been able to judge which countries are natural U.S. allies, to be trusted in the long run. U.S. foreign policy, at least toward the developing world, has been governed by short-term tactical necessities rather than far-seeing strategic thinking and action. A superpower should not have tunnel vision. If the U.S. were to adopt a broader perspective and a deeper understanding of people and nations around the world, the hatred toward America could be gradually reduced. There is simply no quick solution...
...workers who maintain the University will return poverty to our campus within a few years. And in a few more years, its cure will be even more difficult to attain. The HCECP and the Harvard administration cannot diffuse our moral indignation by paying the community lip service with short-term fixes that force it to repeat the same battles every few years...
...justice, and will accept no less. This demand goes beyond a simple call for improvement in the lives of people who currently work at this school. It is a demand that Harvard’s actions reflect the principles and values of those who make up the Harvard community. Short-term political “fixes” that help to blunt the worst effects of Harvard’s employment and contracting policies are not acceptable alternatives to strong and principled solutions that actually eliminate poverty from Harvard’s campus for good...
...involved recognizing Israel's existence, and set about trying sabotaging that process by sending waves of suicide bombers into Israeli cities in the mid-1990s. The organization's ultimate goal is to create an Islamic state in all of pre-1948 Palestine, which includes all of Israel. But its short-term objective is to drive the Israelis out of all territories they conquered in June 1967 - the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza...