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Republican Senator Olympia Snowe broke her toe at home earlier this month. But that didn't stop the wiry Maine moderate from kicking President Bush while he was down last week. Twice, in fact. The Bush team was reeling from Democratic gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia and a broader G.O.P. rebellion in the House over the President's spending bill. With centrists on a comeback in Washington, Snowe stepped up, drawing attention to the White House's still faltering response to Hurricane Katrina. Bush's Small Business Administration has disbursed just 103 disaster loans to businesses...
...Australian doctors - extraordinary in the context of a debate in which advocates of the drugs assert that depressed people who aren't treated are at heightened risk of contemplating and attempting suicide. "The average risk of such events in patients receiving antidepressants was 4%," the U.S. warning reads, "twice the placebo risk of 2%." In other words, drugs meant to stop depressed people from getting even more depressed or killing themselves may double their chances of doing just that. For the skeptics, that's more evidence they are right...
...morning, giving the promising team a disappointing seventh place finish.HARVARD 9, IONA 5Harvard’s first win at Easterns came in its final game of the season against Iona. The Crimson found itself treading familiar water in the early Sunday morning game, as it had defeated, the Gaels twice in the teams’ last two meetings. The Crimson managed to get itself a four-goal lead, one which it held on to throughout the game.“We played as a team and everyone did their part,” junior co-captain Michael Garcia said.Senior goaltender...
...somewhere, because it certainly wasn’t going to be found on special teams.“I thought we executed our game plan across the board,” Murphy said, “with maybe the exception of field goal, PAT.”Harvard scored twice in the first quarter on touchdown receptions by Widman. Employing little-used receiver Peter Scully and tight end Jason Miller for the first strike, sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan moved the Harvard offense into the red zone. From the four-yard line, O’Hagan lobbed...
...should alter the Valley of the Fallen, has so far been silent. The Commission was set up by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in July 2004 to consider appropriate ways to remember victims of both the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship. It has twice postponed releasing its recommendations. "In the course of the Commission's work, more and more questions have arisen," says Ana Salado, spokeswoman for Deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, who heads the Commission. "More than anything, the delay is due to the complexity...