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...these are not normal times, and one reason is Conservative leader Harper. Opponents have been able to paint him as a right-wing yahoo who will undo many of social programs so cherished by the left-leaning Canadian establishment. The Liberals' "greatest ally is Mr. Harper," author Andrew Cohen writes in the Ottawa Citizen. Expect the Liberals to try to demonize Harper again this campaign and then expect a tit-for-tat Tory response to degenerate into the sort of political food fight that will only turn off more voters...
...historical women in the titular essay of the volume, “Decreation: How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil Tell God.” The intense intellectual consideration of these women and their conceptions of decreation (what Weil articulates as the necessity “to undo the creature in us” and what the other women demonstrate is the expulsion of self in order to accommodate a deity) leads to a mediation on their merits and martyrdom in an opera of the same title, “Decreation (An Opera in Three Parts...
Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Assistant Dean for Educational Programs Nancy Turnbull and Robert Seifert of the community action group, The Access Project, created the study to combat a bill that would undo the state’s health insurance law, which guarantees all small businesses fixed premiums for their employees...
...reinterpretation of the Solomon Amendment—a reinterpretation informed by political and legal motives—that forced Dean Kagan to acquiesce. Protest from the country’s most prominent universities will not go unnoticed. But it will take more than friend-of-the-court briefs to undo the law. The University should stop letting other schools fight a battle that the Harvard community clearly cares about and bring its considerable clout to bear on behalf of its students...
Recently, British researchers wanted to see if there was a point of no return, at which it doesn't matter whether you quit. Their conclusion, published in BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) last year: timing is everything. The sooner you quit, the more damage you undo. A smoker who quits at age 50 reduces the risk of lung disease by half. Quitting by age 30 eliminates nearly all the smoking-related risk...