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...After we move east for a three-week stint at 13th Street and Avenue A, the longer commute to work allows no time for shared meals. Our social calendars fill up with individual engagements as we meet new acquaintances and adjust to city life. In the apartment, we only see each other in passing or during the early morning hours. Not long after our second move, my co-worker asks me, “Are you and Kameron okay...
...powerful post as head of the army, but could remain President while Bhutto becomes Prime Minister. He could then afford to hold free elections, since an alliance with Bhutto would give him real support in Parliament. Such an arrangement still wouldn't be democratic, and Bhutto's previous stint as Prime Minister hardly inspires confidence in her management skills. But it would make Musharraf's government more accountable and strengthen the secular parties that are Pakistan's best long-term bulwark against Islamist rule. What's more, an alliance with the more progressive Bhutto might bring the domestic reforms Pakistan...
After all, the Beren Professor of Economics survived a stint in the very public domain of Washington politics, serving as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors from 2003 to 2005. But now, he’s facing a new and perhaps even more public challenge—the wrath of online bloggers...
...important discovery: evidence is building to support the 90-day rehabilitation model, which was stumbled upon by AA (new members are advised to attend a meeting a day for the first 90 days) and is the duration of a typical stint in a drug-treatment program. It turns out that this is just about how long it takes for the brain to reset itself and shake off the immediate influence of a drug. Researchers at Yale University have documented what they call the sleeper effect--a gradual re-engaging of proper decision making and analytical functions in the brain...
...themselves. The tests range from the revolting-drinking urine from a gumboot is one of the milder ordeals described by former members-to the criminal, such as committing a specific crime, being bashed by the whole gang or serving time in jail. Prospects are often required to serve a stint as the gang's errand...