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...semi-legal drugs. Marijuana, for example, is decriminalized in Massachusetts, but if you get caught smoking on campus, you’ll still have to deal with the Ad Board (conversely, you could just transfer to MIT, which has turned a blind eye to dorm room LSD production in the past...
...glaring omission in "11 Olympians to Watch" is Canada's Brian McKeever [Feb. 15]. The legally blind cross-country skier will become the first athlete to compete in both the Paralympic and Olympic winter games. Granted, cross-country skiing does not draw the big crowds, but McKeever's story is one that should be shared and celebrated with the world...
...level of factional division in the Senate. Thirteen Republicans voting for a minor bill is barely worthy of discussion, historically speaking. In years past, legislation regularly passed by such margins and garnered little media attention when it did. Yet, today, every measure seems split on party lines. Hostility and blind partisanship are the going order, and, as such, Brown’s adherence to basic representational duties has been mistakenly considered noble...
Friends say Lieberman is partly to blame for his isolation and that his fury about 2006 can still get the best of him. "He has a blind spot to his own continuing or lingering anger toward the left," says someone who knows him well. That makes him more confrontational than he needs to be, as in his strident threat to filibuster health care. "The old Clinton-era Joe would've said he really wanted to get health care done and was hopeful for a compromise," says one former adviser...
...Having a gender-blind housing option for the senior class is not just an LGBT issue, but is much broader, and I certainly applaud the university’s decision to follow the lead of every other Ivy League school in having some kind of gender-blind option,” said Yale junior Benjamin S. Bernard, a board member of Yale’s LGBT Cooperative...