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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defining factor here was the bad judgment of a driver who had been drinking and the equally poor judgment of those who let him take the wheel and drive them to their death, an action over which they had a choice. NORMAN L. BENDER Woodbridge, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 29, 1997 | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...into the brotherhood, and he got rip-roaring drunk to celebrate. Wynne and his fellow Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers began their bacchanalia with an off-campus keg party featuring "funneling," in which beer is shot through a rubber hose into the drinker's mouth. Next came a communal bender at Murphy's bar, a frat hangout a few hundred yards from L.S.U. There, the libation of choice was "Three Wise Men," a high-octane mix of 151-proof rum, Crown Royal whiskey and Jagermeister liqueur. Wynne "was staggering, but no more than a lot of other people," says a college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE BINGE | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...premiere Friday when Israel's Channel Two runs an ad for Tnuva, an Israeli brand of long-life milk, featuring Tsibliyev drinking a floating blob of it on the Mir space station. Hope Tsibliyev is getting royalties ? Russia is still considering withholding his flight bonus for his orbital fender-bender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tomorrow's News Now | 8/21/1997 | See Source »

...foretold via patterns of words found in the Jewish Torah. Hmmm. Following an elaborate decoding system of my own creation, I have deduced that the letters in the name Michael Drosnin can be rearranged to spell out the mysterious phrase "Him conn'd Israel." Any message in that? ERIC BENDER Kirkland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1997 | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...Chester Hanford, dean of the College since 1927, announces his intent to resign from his post in June to resume teaching in the government department. Wilbur J. Bender '27, chief of the Counsellor for Veterans office--responsible for re-orienting students from the war to the University--is appointed to replace Hanford...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Back to School: 1946-'47 in Review | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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