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...After learning about her HIV status, she says she definitely started taking her medications more seriously. "But it was an ongoing struggle. I did feel sick most of the time - I had nausea and diarrhea. The medicine gave me a bitter, bitter, bitter taste that would come back up in my throat hours later in school. If I could get away with not taking them, I would." Knowing the truth also meant that Pena began living a double life. Only her closest friends knew her diagnosis; most of her classmates were unaware of the daily battle she fought with...
...need for higher education no longer has the fuzzy haloed status of an American dream: it’s a necessary reality. And Fitzsimmons and other opponents of Early Action claim that equalizing the process will benefit an increasing number of disadvantaged students...
...preserved beyond its season by the warm fuffing of the basement radiators, there is no difference between what a vigilant, if bored, audience member might distinguish as a decidedly attractive male student and an esteemed female Professor of Aesthetics (the attractiveness of the former self-evident, the exalted status of the latter self-assumed), whereas there is considerable and vivid promise extended by the protrusion of a soft sail, a furred white triangle—what that same observer would with private amusement (and a mental note to repeat at the first available social occasion) remark as the dog-eared...
...student identification system. Designed to streamline the scoring process by assigning each student a number that included demographic and school data, in reality the scoring verification slowed to a crawl because district officials across the state entered incorrect information pertaining to race, income level and special education status for roughly 11,000 students, out of about 900,000 Illinois test-takers. The state originally promised final results would be released by Oct. 31. but officials say it will be well into the new year before the work is complete...
...continue in the race as an Independent, Lieberman ultimately won an impressive victory, recapturing his Senate seat for a fourth term. Lieberman has agreed to remain within the Democratic caucus, allowing him to maintain his seniority and become chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. But Lieberman’s status as an independent makes it all the more painless for him to switch sides as he pleases, taking the Democrats’ precarious 51-seat majority with him. This unique situation makes Lieberman one of the most powerful people in the Senate...