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...market freedoms - they want the government to protect them from competition, even when that competition is themselves. An organization called the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America has mounted a fierce campaign of lobbying against an amendment to an agriculture spending bill currently before the Senate that would allow Americans to import prescription drugs from Mexico and Canada. Relaxing restrictions would lead to the import of killer counterfeit drugs, the PhRMA warns in a full-page ad in Wednesday's Washington Post. Not only that, "the importation of prescription drugs also means spoiled, adulterated, impotent or subpotent medicines making their...
...allow the New York City police to get away with blaming their failure to act in the Sunday assaults on women in Central Park on concerns about rogue policing [NATION, June 26]. There is no cause-and-effect relationship between the recent high-profile incidents of excessive police force and the cops' failure to respond to the besieged women's pleas for help. This behavior is the result of an insensitive, poorly trained police force. And why do New York City police officers think an appropriate response to criticism about how they do their job is just to stop doing...
...Israeli military to cope with new, substantially more vulnerable borders, as well as the cost of Israel's compensation to Palestinian refugees for property seized in 1948. Needless to say, even if an agreement is reached at Camp David this week, it remains to be seen whether Congress would allow President Clinton to keep his end of the deal...
...Haviaras's request, his position has been split into two part-time jobs to allow the new appointees time to work on their literary pursuits. The two will share the same office, one working mornings as coordinating editor of The Harvard Review, the room's literary journal, while the other works afternoons as curator...
Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul S. Grogan said that the purchase will allow Harvard to change the direction of its future development away from the already heavily crowded Cambridge...