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...letter proposed two measures that Epps had recommended at the September meeting--adult supervision and "bonded bartenders" at the clubs--as solutions to the many cited disciplinary problems...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang and Aaron R. Cohen, S | Title: College Targets Final Clubs | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...interested in adult issues from the time she was very, very small," Gardiner's mother says. "If we were having an adult party, she would be in the doorway listening to what was going...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: D.C.-Bound Gardiner Prepares for Life in Politics | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Recreational pot, hashish, uppers, downers and hallucinogens were part of campus reality. Not everyone drugged but most drank something and cigarette smoking was an acceptable social activity. Adult-like sex was now quite available as well and there was much discussion about "free love," communal living, black separatist states and even revisiting the "back to Africa" vision of Paul Cuffe and Marcus Mosiah Garvey. I seemed to focus on being sure that I was making my own and not peer-pressured decisions about who I wanted...

Author: By Kenneth E. Reeves, | Title: REMEMBERING 1972: LOOKING BACK ON HARVARD | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...some very heated arguments," says Senate Budget chairman Pete Domenici of the months of intense negotiations in his Capitol hideaway. "But this was big adult men knowing we had something to do." Before it was over, the can-do spirit in the negotiating room had grown so heady that Kasich, 44, reached over to hug Gene Sperling, Clinton's 38-year-old national economic adviser. "C'mon, Gene!" cried the gung-ho Kasich. "Let's do it for our generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON WINDFALL | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Punishment came out the overwhelming victor over prevention programs in the House debate over juvenile crime. On a 286-132 vote the House overwhelmingly passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would try juvenile crime offenders as adults. Under the bill, children between the ages of 14 and 18 would be subject to adult punishment for crimes such as rape, murder, armed robbery and drug trafficking. Although President Clinton supports imposing severe punishment on some young criminals, the White House did not back this measure because it does not include funding for crime prevention programs. While even some supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime and Punishment | 5/8/1997 | See Source »

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