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While many abstinent students say that their peers have been mostly supportive of their decision to wait, others can recall times when their choice made them feel somewhat alienated...
...whose policies not only failed to put bread on the table but spurred most of the country's 15 republics to loosen if not actually break the ties that bind them to Moscow. On the other side is Boris Yeltsin, the Lazarus of Soviet politics, the blunt-spoken and somewhat erratic brawler of the streets who seems intent on leading a revolution against the Kremlin...
Private screeners may have failed to catch the 9/11 hijackers, but there’s no reason to believe that TSA employees would have done a better job. Market incentives wouldn’t make procedures perfect—screenings will still be somewhat humiliating and abusive—but, as a whole, private airport security would be more effective, efficient, and risk-based...
...grandmother keeps you in stitches even as the rest of the movie moves at a snail’s pace. From answering the door in the nude to constantly lecturing Brody on her much-anticipated death, Dukakis more than fills the role of the wise-yet-caustic matron.Despite being somewhat miscast, Ryan, Stewart, and Brody possess the acting chops to gently carry “In the Land of Women” to a possible Golden Globe pity-nomination. But Kasdan’s script gives the actors little to work with. Instead of achieving characters of depth and complexity...
...great team together, not necessarily because I’m not friendly, but because I’m not quite as outgoing.”It’s that outgoing quality—valuable on the campaign trail—that can make dining with Sundquist a somewhat drawn-out experience.After an 8:00 a.m. meeting of the student-faculty Committee on House Life and a couple of hours spent e-mailing and attending class—a luxury, considering he didn’t set foot into a classroom during the three weeks of the presidential campaign?...