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...someone else from your school makes it, it all becomes within your grasp,” Nelson says. Still, he says he is surprised at the strength of Yale’s showing this election cycle, calling it “a vast overrepresentation of one school...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel and Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Presidential Game | 10/15/2003 | See Source »

...feel like from this week on we’ll have a vast improvement,” Ogbechie said. “There are a few things missing that we just need to make happen. There’s no more time to waste...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Loses To Cornell, Beats Columbia On N.Y. Swing | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

Before you conclude that the moral of this story is that Canada is just lucky to have the stuff, read on. For the U.S. has vast quantities of a similar deposit called oil shale, a claylike rock soaked through with fossil fuel. In fact, at least 1 trillion bbl. of it, or four times Saudi Arabia's oil reserves, is locked up in the mountains 200 miles west of Denver. The U.S. spent billions of dollars to figure out a way to mine the stuff, then gave up and walked away. Why Canada has succeeded at creating a homemade source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asleep at the Switch | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

Then the National Enquirer ran a story about a claim made by Wilma Cline, Limbaugh's former housemaid at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion, that for four years, beginning in 1998, she illegally supplied him with vast quantities of the prescription drugs OxyContin, hydrocodone and Lorcet. She also claims that Limbaugh went through detox twice in New York during that time to break the habit. Cline, 42, has given audiotapes and other purported evidence to the state's attorney's office of Palm Beach County, and Limbaugh is now a subject of investigation, a source close to the investigation confirmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pills, Race and Rush | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...were not Americans. Would Iyer suggest that their friends and families, many of whom are Asian and all of whom are still mired in grief on the second anniversary of the terrorist outrage, "learn from Asia" and "let it go"? Iyer should be careful. Asia is, after all, a vast continent that is home to Indians, Pakistanis, Israelis, Palestinians, Sunnis, Shi'ites, Chinese and Tibetans, among many others. Cambodia's leniency toward its mass murderers, which Iyer cited, is part of the problem, not the solution. By perpetuating hoary bromides about Asia's older cultures, Iyer furthers the very East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

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