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...enforcement has only succeeded in making the event more unsafe. In the wake of the 2004 Harvard-Yale tailgate in Allston—a comparative success in anyone’s eyes except those of BPD Captain William B. Evans—the BPD threatened to “crack-down” on any future tailgates. Evans touted this crack-down, which will include parental notification for underage students caught drinking, as a response to students’ inappropriate actions at last year’s tailgate. Yes, there were problems in 2004. A bottleneck at the entrance caused...
...Broderick and Lane are having. You can actually see the glances zapping back and forth in the climactic courtroom scene, and when Lane, in a moment of Brooksian metazaniness, compliments Broderick on his singing, you can sense them both, after however many hundreds of performances, desperately trying not to crack up. Like all the classic comedy duos, they draw energy from each other, forming a feedback loop that spins faster and faster--although they are both loath to make any comparisons with the legends of the business...
...smoke. Tobacco addiction is the single greatest cause of preventable illness. Exposure to tobacco smoke not only increases the odds of developing many kinds of cancer but also raises the risks of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Inhalation of vaporized nicotine is as addictive as the smoking of crack cocaine or crystal methamphetamine. Almost all cases of tobacco addiction begin in the teenage years or earlier; therefore, I address this message to young readers. Do not experiment with smoking: the chance of becoming addicted is too great, and this is one of the hardest of all addictions to break...
...popular “See it Now” news broadcast to air McCarthy’s abuses to millions of viewers. His fastidiously fact-checked exposes are rewarded by all-too-familiar accusations of bias, but as played by Strathairn, Murrow is far too hard-boiled to crack under such intimidation tactics...
...there was a spike in incidents that were reported, I have no idea,” Ellison wrote in an e-mail. “There was no policy in place to crack down on any incidents but we have made a more concerted effort to be consistent in our reporting practices...