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blind dates and singles mixers, the midnight calls to high school exes and longing glances at Freida, the grocery store checker. And then the plan: He’ll write a personal—one part creativity and three parts lie—and it will turn his life around. The ads usually read something like...
Feinberg, in a black-and-white polka-dot tie, speaks in short, punchy sentences and a loud voice. He has already given the speech 32 times up and down the East Coast. The main thrust: The government, for the first time ever, has agreed to write large checks to victims' families without any litigation. The checks will arrive within four months after a claim is filed--no legal fees, no agonizing 10-year lawsuit. But every award will be based on a cold calculus, much the way courts handle wrongful-death claims...
...also quite addictive. "Xanax is extremely potent," says Dr. Steven Juergens of Virginia Mason University, who was the first to write about Xanax addiction, in 1988. "It acts quickly on the brain and has a short half-life." Users of such drugs tend to come back for more and more. Xanax is also used by partygoers as a "parachute" drug to bring them down from the effects of stimulants such as ecstasy. It's this combination of drugs, suggests Dr. Herbert Kleber, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, that may account for the current interest in Xanax...
...exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Hey, it's really not that easy to make Elizabeth Hurley look gorgeous LASSIE Canine voted favorite film animal. Marlon Brando had a strong early showing, but in the end they wanted something a little more human JESSE VENTURA Politico-wrestler to help write songs for a musical based on his life. Lucky you can rhyme "rebel governor" with "triple backbreaker" Losers AUSTIN POWERS Faux-spy told his second sequel's title, Goldmember, is too close to Goldfinger. Guess it's back to Man With the Golden Groin MIKE TYSON Brawling boxer denied license...
...witness to the folly of those politically-oriented Undergraduate Councils you refer to (Editorial, “A Step in the Wrong Direction,” Feb. 7): the Burma votes, fighting over gender-neutral language, and other meaningless effluvia better left, as you write, to those groups formed to address them rather than the one voice (albeit a hoarse one) for students’ concerns. At the time, however, the Crimson seemed to share a kindred spirit with the council in this respect of favoring political statements over action that would better students’ lives on campus?...