Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your February 3 article entitled "Nightclub in Cabot Tests Alcohol Policy" so completely misrepresents my motivation for revitalizing Cookin' that it borders on sensationalism. Contrary to the article's allegations, we are not simply seeking "a vehicle to enable the house to host parties." Although it is true that part of the motivation is to throw "good parties," our faculty advisers agree that our other goals are very praiseworthy...
Stopping this clandestine trade is almost impossible for agents of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The weapons are transported by car or truck, aboard trains or stashed in the cargo hold of interstate buses and planes. Federal agents even uncovered one shipment sent by United Parcel Service and labeled "sewing-machine parts." Most of the time they move unimpeded by the kinds of inspections imposed on shipments from outside the U.S. Until more uniformity can be established among state gun laws, gun smuggling on the interstates will remain a flourishing trade...
...South Boston does face real difficulties. In the Outreach program, "the women are mostly single parents from their 20s to 40s, usually with kids, and from disadvantaged backgrounds," says Finn. "Like in a lot of urban areas, they're trapped in a cycle of poverty. Sometimes they've had alcohol or drug problems themselves or in their family; some have dropped out of Boston schools, which often fail to meet their needs...Life just hasn't dealt them a good situation...
...they did, even the most brilliant among them. Janis Joplin. Jimi Hendrix. Jim Morrison. Burnt-out martyrs to the cause, done in by drugs and alcohol. The nobility of their nihilism is, today, a nightmare, the dark side of the force set free in the '60s. The paeans to the generation's liberties echo dolorously, as Love has truly become as strong as Death. "Sometimes," ( Eric Clapton said recently, "you need to hear some harmonic softeners, some quiet, to kind of quench the fire and calm yourself." But the fire cannot be fully extinguished. Though they abhor its destructiveness, those...
...School of Public Health has new programs of its own, including the recently-formed AIDS Institute, the Harvard Alcohol Project and an international conference on competition and collaboration in science this spring...