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...formal Executive Orders. He doesn't issue them any more frequently than George Bush did. Instead, Clinton's tools of choice are known as "presidential directives" and "memoranda to agencies." A President's way of telling his bureaucrats what to do, they carry less weight than Executive Orders tend to. (The White House doesn't mind it, however, when the papers use the more stirring term.) At other times the President simply chooses to announce (and thus grab credit for) new policies coming out of his agencies, such as the Agriculture Department's new rules for meat inspection, which were...
...fantastic person," said former teammate Steven Martins '95. "When somebody dies, or something terrible happens to them, you tend to hear only the good things about them, but [Breistroff] really was a good person...
Like most Americans, I tend to deplore the postmodern moviegoing experience--from the claustrophobic confines of the cineplex to the rowdiness of interactive audiences to the sinister "golden topping" that saturates the reheated popcorn...
...free. What about when there is a lone soul in a large group who orders a CPK pizza with cheese, while the others asked for cheeseless. They might as well wear a hat on their head which says: "Just eat it!" It is increasingly uncomfortable for those who tend not to obsess over weight and fat to continue in their bliss, for surrounding them are growing masses who stare, assess and analyze every bit of food that enters the mouth. How unfortunate that while our food is being liberated of its fat, we as a people are being enslaved...
Scientists, by focusing only on the sexual relations of gay people, tend to suggest deceptively that oral sex may be a problem faced exclusively by homosexuals [MEDICINE, June 17]. I teach biology at a large community college, and most of the questions about the safety of oral sex are from heterosexual students who have probably switched to oral sex from other forms of sexual expression for its purported safety. It is important to inform everybody, irrespective of sexual orientation, that practicing oral sex isn't the easy way to avoid HIV and AIDS. RAGUPATHY KANNAN Fort Smith, Arkansas...