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...touting the economy. Bush aides admitted they have been behind the eight ball, partly because of Hurricane Katrina, and detailed a blueprint for better communications. Bush dashed into the Rose Garden late last week to declare that the economy "continues to gain strength and momentum." The event had been thrown together so quickly that the usual velvet ropes were not set up to pen back journalists. "We're trying the trusting method," an aide joked. Merry glasnost...
...study from Northwestern University showed that 59% of all miscarriages of justice in homicide investigations in Illinois--where a year later Governor George Ryan commuted all death sentences--involved false confessions. But despite such evidence, few confessions are ever thrown out. According to Richard J. Ofshe, a social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert in false confessions, only recently have juries been allowed to hear testimony about the phenomenon, which can occur as a result of coercion, exhaustion or mental impairment. The juries in the Norfolk trials were not among those. Many experts say the solution...
...conversation. But small social gatherings will not reinvigorate freshman social life on their own, especially for the less extroverted freshmen. We applaud the FDO’s plans to collaborate with the First-Year Social Committeee (FYSC) to plan more class-wide events. In years past, the FYSC has thrown a mean freshman formal but has done little else in the way of social programming. It has increased its repertoire this year, including the successful Halloween Catwalk, and is currently planning several class-wide parties. But the structure of the FYSC still leaves room for improvement. We envision that...
Since he's in his first full season as quarterback, Eli will get a pass if the Giants falter. But the pressure is clearly on Peyton. Although he has thrown for 4,000 yds. in each of the past six seasons, tossed 49 touchdown passes last year--breaking Dan Marino's 1984 record--and twice won the NFL's MVP award, the critics chirp that he has never made it to the Super Bowl. "Peyton feels the weight on his shoulders," says John Michael Vincent, an Indianapolis sports-radio host. "There's going to be a lot of disappointment...
...holiday calendar doesn't wait for Baby's developmental pattern to reach its most travel-worthy state. In general, babies are most portable either before they crawl--under 9 months--or after they are established walkers. "Between 9 months and 2 years, babies are more restless and more thrown off by a change in schedule or space," says Maureen O'Brien, a developmental psychologist. For younger babies, the challenge is maintaining their schedule. Mentally scroll through your routine and remember to bring any item intimately involved with getting your child to eat, sleep or settle down: a favorite spoon...