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...different. In many ways it was worse. After the U.S. Administration declared Iran part of an "axis of evil," the ruling clerics lashed out at home, enforcing social strictures with such vigor that we wouldn't leave parties without first chewing several pieces of gum to conceal the alcohol on our breath, in case we encountered a checkpoint run by Islamic paramilitaries. When the rhetoric cooled, the system turned its sights back to its angry young people and essentially decided to stanch their discontent by buying them off. While continuing to brutally suppress all political dissent, the mullahs boosted subsidies...
...culture of complaint at Harvard. Students bemoan the amount of work they have like adolescent boys comparing shoe sizes. They curse Harvard for bad TFs, uninspiring lecturers, the quality of dorm life (and dorm food), the fact that the College—gasp—officially enforces Mass. state alcohol law, poor advising, and a smorgasbord of more petty annoyances...
Your article seemed to suggest that college students are divided into two groups: professed Christians-who abstain from drugs, alcohol, premarital sex and other vices-and all other students, who indulge in continuous debauchery. That is absurd. When I was a college student, I didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't go to many parties. And I graduated with high honors. But I was a liberal agnostic, not a Christian. For anyone to imply that all non-Christian students are immoral is insulting and misleading...
Last call, yells the bartender. Last call for alcohol. The cadets share one last beer--or three. Within 10 minutes, all have filed out into the night...
...authors also hoped the study would raise awareness among women that past abuse might be a partial cause of excessive tobacco and alcohol...