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...owes it all to beer. Klein, 37, is a law student turned securities expert who had his '90s-dropout experience when he fell for two things: a Dutch woman who became his wife and a spicy Dutch brew called witbier (wheat beer), which became his first start-up. The Spring Street Brewing Co. was born in January 1993, and its growth-fueled cash crunch gave Klein his big vision of offering stock to his customers via the Internet...
...most freshmen starting college this fall, dorm life brings the sweet, beer-tinged scent of freedom. No more curfews, no more chores and, best of all, no more tangled, furtive interludes in the backseat of the family minivan...
...regulars but otherwise left them alone. Josie, the bartender, knew him well. "He never drank much," she says, leaning on the bar under a garish mural of nude women. "I've known him for 20 years. He was a nice guy, gentle. He'd drink Coke, Perrier, maybe a beer." Josie emphatically denies Paul was an alcoholic and says he appeared perfectly normal that night. "If he'd been a drunk, we would have known about it," she declares...
...appealing to younger people," says David Hanson, a sociologist who specializes in alcohol abuse and education. Fraternity parties are famous for drinking games that make a sport of quick and excessive consumption. Bars in college neighborhoods pull in students with all-you-can-drink policies--$6.50 for as much beer as a customer can hold--that make binge drinking a cost-effective strategy. With "beat the clock" and "ladder pricing," the prices start low and increase as the night wears on, encouraging students to drink fast while the booze is cheap. And bar owners are constantly thinking up new binge...
...effect the night Wynne died. But neither that policy nor the fact he was underage stopped him from finding a private party and an off-campus bar to serve him enough alcohol to end his life. As recently as five years ago, L.S.U. permitted fraternities to hold open-air beer blasts under the watchful eyes of campus police. "We had some injuries, mostly from horseplay and wrestling in the mud," says L.S.U. police captain Ricky Adams. "We never had anyone...