Let's see if we can get December off to a good start. November passed much more smoothly than October did. For example, in October the Twins were swept in the first round of the playoffs. In November, the Twins swept the AL Cy Young and MVP awards. That takes a little of the sting out - and makes the off-season that much shorter. The election ( Read more... )

Dear Friend,

President Bush's new head of federal family-planning programs
believes that birth control is "demeaning" to women. President
Bush's appointee, Eric Keroack, would lead the Department of
Health and Human Services' family-planning program - which helps
more than five million people annually at 4,600 clinics
nationwide.

Keroack has dedicated his ( Read more... )

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Last month, rather than being optimistic, I should have been humble. Nothing really seemed to go right in October, so I am reluctant to hope for better this month. Sometimes you just have to put your head down and run. However, the good thing about not being on time with these monthly notes is that you can get a little taste of the November. My ( Read more... )

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I had, seriously, written 90% of my October Day email yesterday, on time and on topic. And then it got erased. Through nobody's fault but my own. I would have been better of sending it away incomplete - but it's just so hard to publish when something's not finished. So I ask again for forgiveness for my tardiness ( Read more... )

Resources for the Future, a non-partisan, independent research-oriented
think tank in Washington, DC, will be hiring four research assistants over
the next month.  Our RA hiring often focuses on students with master's
degrees.  For example, the three RAs in my division have master's degrees --
one from Johns Hopkins SAIS and two from the Nicholas ( Read more... )

If memory serves me, I was just recovering from a brief illness when I wrote my last Day message. History repeats itself; but in a mirror rather than through a telescope (not both, I hope) (that's called assonance for the students out there). But what I mean is that I seem to be getting sick now rather than getting better. And a telescope would ( Read more... )

I am late again. I apologize. I was doing so well, too. In my last couple days, I've spent my free time being sick. Which is not conducive to writing missives (though some might disagree). I have also been rather busy and distracted, but that's another story altogether ( Read more... )