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...feel better. The band is perfect for kids who know their clothes don’t fit but don’t know where else to shop, kids who have an inkling that “Fight Club” stinks but don’t want to slog through “The Seventh Seal.” Despite opening shows for Pearl Jam in 2000 and co-headlining a tour with Death Cab For Cutie in 2002, the D-Plan were most at home in the D.C. suburbs. Their musical roots can be found in D.C. as well...
...more tinkering is needed - more than is contained in the so-called Experimental Law Variations that Australia is advocating. Rugby gives the defending side every chance to get out of trouble, to push play away from the attacking zones and back toward center field for more tedious slog. It's time to seal some of the escape hatches. The options of kicking out on the full from, and calling "mark" within, one's own 22-m zone need to be abolished. So does the nonsense of allowing players to touch down a kick that they've gathered in their...
...pushed so far. There comes a point where you have to draw the line." GM officials, meanwhile, said the talks involved complex issues and the company planned to "continue focusing our efforts on reaching an agreement as soon as possible." Union members said they were prepared for a long slog. "You can't look at it just for today," said another member as she signed up for picket duty. "If you do, you won't have a dime to retire...
...licensing system has also introduced a clinical skills exam, which every domestic and foreign medical school graduate must pass. Robyn Tamblyn, the lead author of the JAMA paper and a professor of medicine at McGill, thinks the test ought to be given even earlier than that. Why have doctors slog through med school only to be pushed out of the profession afterward because their bad bedside manner? Tamblyn recommends testing students' aptitude for communication as part of the med-school admissions process, or at least testing students early enough in medical school that they can get remedial help if they...
Today's boys may wear their pants too damned baggy and go around with iPod buds in their ears. They know everything about Xbox 360 and nothing about paper routes. I doubt that they slog to school through deep snow as I recall doing back before the globe warmed up. But judging from the numbers, they are pulling themselves up from the handbasket to hell...