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...left amid the fighting. Mary eventually followed him in the van, picked him up and drove to the marina in a suburb called Des Moines. Her van crept around the parking lot as they looked for a place to stop, and a security guard watched it run over a curb. Suspecting a drunk driver, he called the cops...
Having trusted Harvard to be the right environment for us to grow as scholars and as individuals, we now find a paternalistic administration eager to curb our liberties. One's decision to smoke and even one's decision whether or not to tolerate a roommate's smoking are under attack. As Eric M. Nelson '99, chair of the Undergraduate Council's Student Advisory Committee, described it in the Crimson article which recounted the COHL meeting, "Students are on their way to becoming adults, and it's important that they be able to make these sort of choices...
Benjamin Netanyahu is a high roller, and when you're upping the ante, it helps to look the part -- which might be why the Israeli prime minister's office has been spending $3,100 a month on cigars. After a media outcry, Netanyahu today promised to curb his habit of puffing on $30 stogies at work and offering them to guests. (Add up the figures and it's hard not to suspect that the help had their hands in the humidor too.) Not that Bibi hadn't sacrificed enough already: During his opposition days, he smoked 'em Cuban; once elected...
Recently, a bill was introduced to the Illinois state legislature that would curb services that sell liquor through the Internet. Says Rep. Angelo Saviano: "Many kids as young as 16 have debit cards with their checking accounts...Children are able to order alcohol through the Internet or a catalog and it's delivered right to their doorstep." To prevent this horrible crime, the bill would require consumers to prove they are at least 21 before receiving the alcohol...
...past year, the human-rights group Amnesty International has waged a battle with manufacturers and governments around the world to curb commerce in these devices. Amnesty says electric-shock torture or the abuse of prisoners with shock devices has occurred in at least 50 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. "Torturers seem to be discovering that electroshock stun weapons are ideal for their evil purposes--cheap, easy to conceal and hard to trace," says Brian Wood, who tracks the weapons internationally for Amnesty. TIME's own investigation found few international controls over the devices, along with...