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...SafeRide program, which is now in its fourth year, was created after the Boston chapter of the national Sober Ride program became defunct...
Beyond the posters, there seemed to be no trace of ADPhi on campus. The contact information led only to a brief phone call with a man named “Mo,” an undergraduate in the Brandeis chapter. And members of Harvard’s other fraternities had no clues. In fact, the only suspicion of any ADPhi-related activity was miles away...
...frat house days: Cartoonist Garry Trudeau [Yale Alumni, '70] said he thinks a little-known fact about President George W. Bush '68's past - that his first mention in The New York Times occurred in 1967 when, as former president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale, Bush defended the fraternity's practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger - deserves more national attention ... On Sunday, Trudeau's cartoon "Doonesbury" featured fictional character Mark Slackmeyer explaining the President's position against current anti-torture legislation by revisiting a series of 1967 Yale Daily News articles that...
...That frustrated generosity, however, has since served to catalyze a new chapter for public health. As a former Massachusetts state commissioner of public health who served during the national challenges of 9/11 and the anthrax scare, I believe our future depends on talents drawn from every untapped resource. Our country has long enjoyed the proud national volunteer traditions embodied by the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and similarly directed initiatives. Public health in the 21st century can also tap this rich reservoir of good will, as seen on September...
...science behind a hot, flat, and crowded world is relatively deep, and he expresses moving concern about America’s role in fostering responsible economic growth in emerging markets. But all of this becomes diluted in Friedman’s attempt to make his message user-friendly. His chapters feature a preponderance of italicized, monosyllabic words, saccharine metaphors (“we are all sailing on the Mayflower anew”) and a cut-and-paste frenzy of recent news articles that make some of the chapters read like a LexisNexis power search. The book is uneven because...