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Officials supplement and cross-check the survey's results with other, quantifiable, verifiable data like the number of drug-related arrests and drug seizures in a particular area. Another research tool, known as the Drug Abuse Warning Network, or DAWN, tracks the number of emergency-room visits and drug overdoses throughout the country. Using figures like these, officials determine where and how funding will be allocated throughout the country, Compton says. But these numbers fail to account for those drug dealers and users who have managed to avoid doctors and police...
...real question to ask is which of the major candidates is best suited to serve at this particular moment in history. One unfortunate consideration about this particular moment in history is that a president’s success relies on his or her ability to operate within a rigid “system” that consists, in large part, of aggressive special interests representing everything from corporations and unions to environmental groups. Another hard truth: America will be red and blue, not purple, for the foreseeable future. Democrats will only make progress past red and blue when they actually...
...this aside, a course on the tactics of military victory does not have a place in Harvard’s curriculum any more than a course on corporate accounting or marketing. Courses that arm students for a particular profession, be it managing portfolios or planning sorties, don’t conform to Harvard’s liberal arts philosophy...
...though we’re kindergartners,” Cleo D. M. Leung ’08 said.Though the Khoshbins did send a response over the House’s open list after students began voicing their concerns, Leung and others felt it was not adequate and took particular offense at their explanation, which partly invoked the shooting at Virginia Tech last spring.“We all know that you do not pull out random terror events to justify drastic measures in other areas that really aren’t related,” Leung said...
...only ones asking questions. These are "rallies," not "town halls," though McCain has often said he prefers the give-and-take, and surprises, that come with opening up the floor to the audience. His says that's where he shines as well, but in New Hampshire, in particular, where anti-war sentiment runs high, an open forum could pull McCain off of his carefully crafted message. In Concord, he says he'll take questions if there's time. A young man approaches him and says, in the slightly quavering voice of someone not used to speaking in public...