Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard students are under arrest for trying to buy alcohol from undercover cops," an anchor for Boston's WHDH-TV read at the top of the 11 p.m. newscast the Saturday before Thanksgiving last year...
...give or take) in 1994 are (allowing for a few regional differences, such as machetes and skin color) identical to the tribal bloodlusts at work in the Balkans. Eerily the same: the neighbors who suddenly turn a killing fury upon neighbors, the roving bands fueled round the clock on alcohol, the strange, dull light in the murderers' eyes, the sudden civic duty to exterminate the Other...
...restriction of movement and the sexually aggressive atmosphere. Well, I would likely not feel comfortable in an S&M club, so I choose not to go for one. Women who fell threatened by the clubs' environments should seek tamer pastures. However apparently women enjoy being confined, pumped full of alcohol and preyed upon. They feel desired, not demeaned...
Later that night, one member of FM visited the Fly Club, where blood alcohol apparently turned to testosterone--transubstantiation run amok as a fight broke out and some Fly guys wrinkled their khakis. One female party-goer, disgusted with the machismo demonstration, remarked, "No matter how much renovation they do, this place will always be a dump...
...happens: People drop out of Harvard. Last year 350 students, including those studying abroad, took voluntary leaves of absence. The Ad Board compelled an additional 20 students to withdraw for varying lengths of time; twelve for "inappropriate social behavior," the three for alcohol or drug-related "inappropriate social behavior," and five for "academic dishonesty." Only one of these students is for-bidden to return; most of the others will gladly come back when permitted. However, most people who drop out or take extended leaves of absence do so voluntarily. Then, of course, there are the cases of Matthew P. Damon...