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Four Middle School Students Get Sick After Eating Marijuana-Laced Chocolates

Matt McDonald

Four middle-school students in Plaistow, New Hampshire got sick after eating chocolates laced with marijuana that one of the children brought to school, the superintendent said.

One of the students had to go to the hospital for observation, while the other three were treated by the school nurse and released, the superintendent told The Union Leader.

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Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Trial Show Identity Politics Is Eating Itself, Boston Globe Columnist Says

Matt McDonald

Elizabeth Warren's much-pilloried DNA test rollout and Harvard's continuing admissions trial show that identity politics is eating itself, says former Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson.

"Savor last week. It may mean that we have reached a long overdue turning point," Ferguson writes in a column in The Boston Globe.

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