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...look, my friend explained that "public schools here are really much better these days." Much better, apparently, means that alongside Islamic indoctrination, kids also receive an hour of music lessons a week, their textbooks include color pictures, and teachers no longer say "raise your hand if your parents drink alcohol at home...
...Another approach, practiced by an Iranian-American friend of mine, is the "keeping secrets" method. This involves teaching your kids that the values you teach at home - that alcohol is alright in moderation, that satellite television is acceptable, that a divorced mother has the right to date - are part of a special, private world of which they should never speak outside. This makes a value out of privacy, and sidesteps the delicate task of teaching why it's okay to lie in certain situations, but not in others. None of this wards off the day your son returns home...
...together, we’re all unified in a common celebration of being undergraduate students at Harvard.” But with all that unity (and all that beer), things got a little out of hand the last time Harvard hosted the Game.In 2004, the alcohol (and urine) flowed so freely that Captain William Evans of the Boston Police Department famously said to The Crimson, “I was embarrassed to be a policeman on that field seeing what I had to see.” The result is a panoply of restrictions structured by the Boston Police Department...
...work as they try to listen for loud, blaring party music. Some achieve their goal of getting blindingly drunk, willfully disregarding the ubiquitous signs behind the bar: “You must be 21 or older to drink.” But could the pernicious purveyers of that alcohol actually get in trouble for feeding underage booze hounds? The College’s Handbook for Students says that the “provision of alcohol to anyone under 21 years of age [is a violation] of the law and of Harvard policy,” but the likelihood of getting...
...quitting game, but according to his press materials, he’s cured thousands of people, among them Billy Joel, Courtney Cox, Drew Barrymore, and Amy Tan. His self-proclaimed success rate is 98%, and in addition to cigarettes, he can do weight-loss, drugs, phobias, and alcohol. I’d had my last cigarette back in the Square, while sitting outside of Boylston Hall and reading some books in the nice fall weather. Two hours later, when I walked into Dr. S’s office, I greeted the receptionist in Russian and she told me to take...