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...issue also triggered his first veto, as he scuttled a bill last summer that would have eased that ban. And while Congress usually gets the message on presidential vetoes - no means no - a nearly identical embryonic stem cell bill that has passed the Senate sailed through the House Thursday, setting up yet another opportunity for the President to veto a measure that is increasingly popular both with the public and its elected representatives...
...It’s no surprise that more Harvard undergraduates defect from the sciences than the other way around. The temptations are strong and many: fewer hours in lab, easier Core courses, a more flexible homework schedule, and Thursday nights free from problem sets. Science concentrators routinely spend more than 15 hours per week in class and lab, while our humanities and social sciences counterparts rarely crack that number...
...those great inside jokes and crazy nicknames that made me happy to be part of such a close community. Red was for the reminders to go into the office on Wednesday to steal Fifteen Minutes early because I just couldn’t wait until Thursday morning to read...
...rhetoric is set to disrupt an otherwise carefully orchestrated G-8 summit this week in Germany where Bush had planned to highlight global development efforts, a new climate change program and trade negotiations. It also threatens to fracture already weak European support for missile defense. Bush will meet Putin Thursday in Germany, and again early in July at Kennebunkport as part of the effort to reassure the Russians that missile defense is aimed not at undermining Russia's deterrent capability but at combating regimes like Iran's that are developing missile arsenals and are hostile...
...never occurred to the generals that Chaudhry would say no," says Ahsan. "So when he did, they had no plan B." What transpired instead was an increasingly ham-fisted attempt to contain the subsequent public outrage by cracking down on media coverage of the ongoing crisis. On Thursday, the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority banned live talk shows. On Friday it banned any live coverage of the Chief Justice's rally the next day in Abbottabad. On Saturday authorities sent letters to cable companies telling them not to air programs that encourage an "anti-state attitude" or that contain "aspersions against...