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...better electoral prospect than Beazley, especially in closely contested seats. Beazley had lost general elections against Prime Minister John Howard in 1998 and 2001. After trying to wrest the leadership during his wilderness years, Beazley finally regained it in 2005. Despite a more vigorous and disciplined approach-he lost weight and spoke more directly-Beazley 2.0 was unable to inspire his own caucus or switch voters onto an emerging platform of traditional social-democratic policies...
...sounded on the 2006-2007 indoor track season for the Harvard team this weekend, but it could not jump out to a quick start. Instead, the Crimson men fell to Boston College by a 73-53 margin, while the women lost 86-41. In the weight throw, Harvard swept the top three spots. Senior Christian Ayers led the way with his toss of 16.08 meters. Similarly, the shot put was won by freshman Jack Brady. His shot of 14.45 just edged teammate and junior Alex Obrecht. Otherwise, however, the Crimson only won four more events out of the 15 total...
...When the protease inhibitors became available in 1996, Pena was one of many young AIDS patients who jumped on them. Since childhood, she says, the number of drugs that she took just continued to get larger and larger. "There were more pills at every birthday," she says. "As my weight increased, they would up the dose." The protease inhibitors were powerful but the side effects were brutal. "Since I was on medications for so long, it almost seemed like second nature to lose my appetite and be nauseated," she says...
During the interview, Colbert made a number of jokes about Frank’s weight, to which the Congressman responded with grimaces. Frank later told The Boston Globe that he was “disappointed” with the interview and found Colbert’s style to be “very strange...
...minority and who is an “over-represented” one. In theory, admissions should be done the way many elite colleges claim they are conducted: holistically, with no explicit quantitative benefit for certain races. But looking at admissions data, it seems that colleges are giving such weight to considerations of race that the result is de facto quotas...