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...neither he nor Kagan thought the Allston question would pose a serious obstacle to securing donors for new buildings...
...than did patients taking a placebo. The FDA is reviewing the data under political pressure to issue its own recommendations. Untreated depression too often leads to suicide, the third most common cause of death among adolescents, but doctors and parents need assurance that a treatment isn't going to pose the same risk. --By David Bjerklie
...searching for the mythical Zone of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 postapocalyptic film, Stalker, a place where, Dyer says, "Everyone can become whatever they want to be." As both author and central character of his "somewhat fictionalized" travelogue, Dyer can likewise choose an identity. But instead of striking a heroic pose, he portrays himself as a hapless failure, someone who is always wishing to do something?hop a freight train, ask a woman out, adopt a child in Goa?but never follows through. "I have an idea for a self-help book," he tells an alluring beauty on the beach, "Yoga...
...Other advocates of the invasion are ready to concede to the deception, but only to the extent that the time-frame was exaggerated. Okay, so Saddam posed no immediate threat to the U.S. but he would eventually pose such a threat, so better to eliminate his regime now - thus former NSC staffer Ken Pollack. The Democrats appear confused on whether to exploit the intelligence meltdown, with most hewing cautiously to the belief that the WMD claims that justified their vote for war will eventually emerge. But presidential contender Senator John Kerry this week accused President Bush of lying in making...
Back then, the band's misanthropy seemed a bit of a pose. But on Everything Must Go, its second album in three years (2000's Two Against Nature won four Grammys, including Album of the Year), Steely Dan fully inhabits the role of rock's would-be Humberts, swinging through lite jazz riffs and dropping amber-encased phrases like "the big adios" while the girls ignore the come-ons. On tracks like the heartsick Things I Miss the Most--with Fagen yearning for the days of "Frying up my sad cuisine/Getting in bed and curling up with a girlie magazine...