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Remember the war on drugs? George Bush waving a plastic bag of crack bought across the street from the White House during a nationally televised speech? The Pentagon planning to station an aircraft carrier off the coast of Colombia to monitor suspected drug smugglers? Candidates for political office proffering urine samples and daring their opponents to do the same? The appointment of combative William J. Bennett as the nation's first drug czar, a post from which he would coordinate an all-out assault on a menace that seemed to threaten the very survival...
Cautioning the final clubs not to become "centers of heavy drinking," Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said this week that if they do not voluntarily cut down on underage alcohol consumption he will pressure club alumni to crack down...
...young season and young Crimson lineup and the shallow, slow Brown pool, the times were strong. The Crimson freshmen dominated the show with first-place finishes from Dave Bandy, Gouldson, Matthew Mckay, Ou and diver Craig Narveson. In the 200-meter butterfly, the Brown squad couldn't even crack the two-minute barrier, while Harvard's four entrants swept the first four places...
Bored with the fall TV season? Tired of matching wits with Jeopardy contestants? Take a crack at these brainteasers...
SOME in the media would even contend, justifiably, that the Silber people have it all backwards. The candidate prided himself on the bluntness of his message, the disingenuity with which he attacked such problems as crime (refusing to give a speech in Dorcester to "a bunch of crack addicts") and health care (disputing the need for lengthy and fruitless hospital stays for the elderly) and the feminist movement (blaming working women for leading to the disruption of family unity...