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Unless something drastic changes, equality has prevailed. The transparent election-year attempts of social conservatives to drum up a nationwide base of hatred have, for the time being, failed. But if the last year teaches us anything, it should be that archaic bigotry is alive and well in America—and that it can be defeated...
...said four-seat Jonathan D. Lehe ’04. “We know if we don’t let anybody jump us by more than a seat or two off the start we can pull it back. We know we’ve got more base speed in the middle than anyone else...
...hoped to name Iraq's new leaders, that plan was overhauled. Brahimi's first choice for Prime Minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, was leaked early last week to Washington reporters. But Shi'ite members of the Governing Council quickly complained that al-Shahristani, a former nuclear scientist, lacked any political base in the country; non-Shi'ite members of the council said he was too religious. Iraqi and U.N. officials say that after al-Shahristani withdrew his name from consideration, members of the Governing Council advised Brahimi that they had agreed to back one of their own for the new government...
...scientists who have studied both groups say that underneath these similarities are two very different syndromes. "Obesity is at its base a metabolic disorder," says Dr. Lee Kaplan, director of the Obesity Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. Anorexia and bulimia, he maintains, "are primary psychiatric disorders...
Whistle-blowers say inefficiency is encouraged by the nature of Halliburton's cost-plus contract, which ensures that the company will be repaid for expenses. Henry Bunting, 59, a former Army staff sergeant in Vietnam, handled procurement contracts for Halliburton from a base in Kuwait. He says he was actively discouraged from bidding. "We were not looking for the best price," Bunting told TIME. "The supervisors said time and again, 'Don't worry about the price. Halliburton will get reimbursed.'" Disgusted, Bunting quit and went home last summer. He testified before Congress in February on Iraqi contract practices. A Halliburton...