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Both the Northeast’s wretched weather and the Ivy League’s stringent travel restrictions artificially condense the conference schedule into one month of exhausting play. The early-season swings through the South are in practice just preseason tune-ups, used to find a fourth starter and actually see some live pitching for the first time in six months. In a league where it’s virtually impossible for a team to receive an at-large berth to the NCAA tournament, none of that matters...
Originally, Gen Ed required that students take two courses in each of three academic areas: the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences. This was in addition to the Expository Writing (Expos) requirement and a stringent four-semester in-residence language requirement...
First-years at Yale and Princeton don’t have proctors. Although Pennsylvania has some of the most stringent state liquor laws in the country, the University of Pennsylvania does not launch late-night room raids...
...urged the manufacturers of 10 popular antidepressants to issue new, more stringent warning labels. The drugs named in the advisory are Prozac, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Zyban, Paxil, Celexa, Effexor, Serzone, Luvox and Remeron. Together these pills racked up sales of about $12 billion worldwide in 2002. Some experts believe that it was their very popularity that concerned the FDA. Many doctors, the agency apparently fears, are giving out the pills too freely, without adequate monitoring...
...pair must figure out exactly how Just Democracy’s volunteers will operate, especially in those states with particularly stringent laws preventing observers from interacting with voters...