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Evans announced yesterday that the BPD will crack down on future Harvard-Yale tailgates to limit underage drinking and wild behavior. The tailgates will be forced to start no more than two hours before The Game and end no more than two hours after...
...Increasing unemployment, a dwindling population, crippling budget cuts, a surge in crime and increasing hopelessness along with the influx of crack cocaine and heroin, all combined to make Pittsfield an environment that sustained an epidemic of teen parenthood and a host of other social ills,” Lipper described in a summary of her book...
...regular-season games to take the Ivy title for the third time in four seasons. After losing just guard Ed Persia to graduation, not only does it seem the Tigers have the inside track to make it four of five, but the squad might also have a shot to crack the top 25. The Tigers already played No. 6 Syracuse tough and will have two other opportunities—against Rutgers and Duke—to make a national statement. Coach Joe Scott comes back to Princeton from Air Force, taking over for John Thompson III, who moved...
...record on civil rights is, unsurprisingly, abysmal. He denied racial bias in the implementation of the death penalty and condoned the sentencing disparity between cases involving crack and powder cocaine. Even the conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly criticized Ashcroft’s opposition to the voluntary desegregation of a low-income school district when Ashcroft was in the Senate...
...adaptations of fairy tales and classic kids' stories. More professional children's theaters started sprouting in the 1960s and '70s in cities such as Minneapolis and Seattle, and children's playwrights began to tackle more serious social issues, from adjusting to a stepmother (Suzan Zeder's Step on a Crack) to the Holocaust (James Still's And Then They Came for Me). A landmark play like The Yellow Boat--which David Saar, who runs the enterprising Childsplaytheater in Tempe, based on the death of his son, a hemophiliac, from AIDS at age 8--is as theatrically bold and emotionally wrenching...