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...against the "common enemy." "I affirmed to the Prime Minister as well as to the foreign minister that the United States considers the PKK a terrorist organization and indeed that we have a common enemy, that we must find ways to take effective action so that Turkey will not suffer from terrorist attacks," she told reporters after the meetings. "Such attacks are destabilizing for Iraq [and] a problem therefore of security for the United States and Turkey...
...more than a dozen states, Medicaid no longer covers the surgery routinely, leaving many poor children without the option. But intactivism is also gaining traction among educated, middle-class whites. As University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox observes, "It's these new parents that are unwilling to let kids suffer...
...have our first big-game catch of the 2007 housing slump and credit crunch. On Oct. 30, Stan O'Neal resigned his post as CEO of Merrill Lynch after reporting that his firm would suffer a $7.9 billion hit to the value of its assets because of bad bets on mortgage-related securities. O'Neal personally took blame for Merrill's forceful push into complex instruments designed to distribute the risk of a surging subprime-mortgage market--the ones now imploding as home prices flatline and defaults spike...
...lucky to be in the know. Most of us are not, and, worse, most of us couldn’t care less. To imagine a few members of Harvard’s political elite acting on the behalf of thousands of students who suffer from a poverty of interest is worrisome at best and aristocratic at worst...
...higher. A 2004 study by psychiatrists at the University of Queensland found that Chinese were almost 50% more likely to develop a gambling addiction than Caucasians. In the U.S., about 3.5% of people are classified as pathological and problem gamblers (more than the number of people who suffer from bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's disease or schizophrenia). In Hong Kong, 5.3% of the population suffers from problem and pathological gambling, according to the University of Hong Kong...