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...even think about trying to sneak in a non-Harvard guest while she's on duty. She is tougher than Annenberg. "I always look at the pictures," Vicky said, "It's a habit. The IDs are not transferable. A couple of years ago, someone lost an ID and stole from the rooms, you know?" The most common way students try to enter illicitly, Vicky said, is through the side door from the small dining room. She glances over to this door, as she checks each ID photo. "Just the other day, some girl gave me an ID card that...
...general quality of life in our fair nation. Every Presidential hopeful has their own plan on how to reform health care, social security and/or public education. Political parties are falling over themselves to provide tax cuts. Politicians everywhere raise outcries over the massacre in Littleton and propose gun-control, tougher crime laws and/or censorship of the overly-violent media as solutions...
...table, the first test is whether they have enough "fire in the belly" for the job. Americans like to see whether their future President can make it through a tough campaign. When he gets to the Oval Office, the theory goes, that fire will get him through the even tougher days and nights. For McCain, the challenge is not to prove he has the fire, but the opposite: that if he carries the McCain flame into the White House, it won't set the mansion ablaze...
Columbia (6-20, 2-12, 8th) should still get beat up and beaten by its tougher Ivy opponents...
Sure, why not? Scientists used to think it would be difficult to clone an animal as complex as a mammal, but Dolly the sheep neatly demolished that theory. If you can clone a sheep, a human isn't much tougher. Whether it is ethical to do so is another matter, and in fact human cloning has been outlawed in a number of countries and states. But illegal or not, someone's going to do it--and having been conceived by a convicted felon is no bar to public office...