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...senior from Indianapolis, "but you're not totally excluding yourself from the world." Says Tyler Irwin, 20, a sophomore from Polson, Mont.: "I don't want to put myself in a compromising position, with lots of alcohol and lots of girls and not a lot of clothes." House rules ban drinking, tobacco, illegal drugs and premarital sex. Room doors must be open when students of the opposite sex are together inside. Marks of holy living are everywhere. In the corridors, residents have posted snippets of Scripture, like FLEE THE EVIL DESIRES OF YOUTH. On a recent Friday night, as other...
...good to the N.R.A. With Republicans running Washington, cowed Democrats are afraid to utter the words gun control even in the privacy of their homes. As a result, despite polls showing that most Americans support sensible gun laws, the N.R.A. has opposed even popular measures like renewing the 1994 ban on assault weapons (which Congress let lapse last year). At this point, the N.R.A. won't even support banning the sale of guns to terrorist suspects on the no-fly list. Pressed on the matter, LaPierre has piously asserted, "This is a list that somebody has just put a name...
...France, says that airport taxes on that route alone come to €51, so there's no way airlines can compete on price. "Is it legitimate that this can happen?" Spinetta asks, pointing out that the French national railway continues to receive huge subsidies - while European Union rules now ban airlines from taking state handouts. An EasyJet spokesman says the airline took on the route two years ago as a trade off for getting slots at Paris' Orly airport. It still flies from Paris to Toulouse and Nice, two destinations where the TGV doesn't travel at full tilt...
...bottom line is that safe travelers can study abroad in a broad range of locales. Schools like Yale and New York University already recognize this. They ban students from traveling to dangerous areas within other countries instead of imposing blanket bans on countries themselves. The OIP and the Harvard Office of General Counsel (OGC) must either conform to these more reasonable and widely-adopted standards for international travel or provide a transparent explanation for why they will...
...slow things down, the government has curbed the money supply and put new limits on foreign purchases. Two weeks ago, for example, Peking slapped a two-year ban on imports of cars and trucks, Huan predicted that all those measures would reduce growth slightly, perhaps to 9%, next year. Despite China's growing pains, Huan thinks the country will stay on its new course. Said he: "We must not be afraid of learning from the capitalists...