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...many PBHA students say they are confused by the complex governing structure created by the 1997 agreement. Two separate bodies purport to oversee PBHA's operations. One is the Board of Trustees, of which eight of 18 are students. The other is the PBHA Cabinet, made up entirely of students...
...underhanded method by which the Cambridge City Council proposed a salary hike for its own members, although technically and procedurally sound, is a sad example of public officials deliberately misleading those they purport to serve...
...hope that when the Supreme Court announces their decision this summer, they will have taken into account the fact that the very entities they might purport to be protecting by striking down VAWA have adamantly protested against such protection. It would be a shame to compromise a piece of legislation that accomplishes so much for women's civil rights for an ulterior motive of preserving some misplaced notion of federalism...
...alarmed the National Institute on Drug Abuse that on Friday it launched a campaign in gyms, malls, bookstores, clubs and on the Internet to warn teenagers about the dangers. Meanwhile, teenagers in even larger numbers are buying legal but lightly regulated food supplements, some with dangerous side effects, that purport to make you bigger or leaner or stronger...
...true, the earlier date casts serious doubt on several controversial theories that purport to trace the beginning of the epidemic to the 1950s--specifically to experimental polio vaccines made from chimp tissue and tested in parts of Africa. A more likely scenario: the virus passed from animal to man during hunting and butchering when human and infected chimp blood intermingled...