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After mimosas, it’s crunch time. As the hour draws nigh, it’s time to cram those lyrics while downing drinks. The possibilities are endless, from power hours with minute-long snippets of each artist’s songs to musical chairs, the drinking edition. By the time you’re sufficiently buzzed, it will be time to head to the Yard...
These accommodations help the student perform better overall because the mental disabilities they face can cause insurmountable barriers to success. A voiceless mentally ill population is exploited in America. With nigh zero mention of mental illness in the current health care debate because mental health issues are the elephant in the room when discussing health care, the voiceless are being pushed aside for big interests to see their agenda through the health reform bill. We can see similar practices on a smaller scale at Harvard...
...office. Indeed, the notion of defeat is so unthinkable for his Administration that Obama's foremost argument in rounding up support in the House and Senate is a panoptic imperative: health care is too important - politically and substantively - to fail. Should the effort collapse, regaining political traction would be nigh impossible any time soon, if ever. And a potential comeback would be in further jeopardy because Obama is so unaccustomed to losing...
...reshuffling of the grizzly- and polar-bear populations is nigh, it's not clear where the new lines will be drawn, says Robert Rockwell, a biologist with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and co-author of a new paper documenting a spate of recent grizzly sightings in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist. Before 1996, there had been no evidence of grizzlies in the national park, but between 1996 and 2009, Rockwell says, there were nine confirmed sightings, plus three more...
...past few months, mainstream analysts in the U.S. have dared to think what, for the past three decades, has been nigh on unthinkable: that Washington should withdraw from the peace process until the Palestinians and Israelis invite them back and decide finally to get serious. "It's time for a radically new approach," wrote the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman last November. "I mean something no U.S. Administration has ever dared to do: take down our PEACE-PROCESSING IS US sign and just go home...