Word: curbing
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...fall comedy show, the co-sponsorship seemed logical. But we understand that communication is often hard to foster between groups, so we applaud the impressive and interested outreach of both groups. This cooperation made it possible to secure seven comedians hailing from Saturday Night Live, the Tonight Show, and Curb Your Enthusiasm—on the performers’ own time, free of charge. That the HCC and ERC were able to approach and convince performers of this caliber is a testament to the level of success that can be achieved with appropriate planning and organizing. The charitable nature...
Alcohol experts think the government could be a lot more influential if it had the guts to take on the liquor industry and voters who whinge about the nanny state. Those experts say there's good evidence that what works best to curb excess drinking is higher taxes on alcohol, lowering the number and density of places to buy booze and instituting a robust policy of random breath-alcohol testing for drivers. But across Europe--the hardest-drinking region in the world--almost all governments, including Britain's, prefer responsible-drinking campaigns premised on the idea that trouble flows from...
...crowded Sanders Theatre echoed with laughter as comedians hailing from Saturday Night Live, the Tonight Show, and Curb Your Enthusiasm performed in Comedy for a Cause Saturday night, raising almost $10,000 for earthquake relief efforts in Pakistan.The show was sponsored by the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Earthquake Relief Coalition. Tyler O’Brien ’07, one of the shows’s co-producers and member of the HCC, said that the HCC and the Coalition worked well together.“[The Coalition would] use their infrastructure and fund-raising capabilities to motivate...
...easy, Eric is grateful that he had the chance to step back, and is convinced that it significantly changed his life for the better. “I’m glad for that option, as opposed to them just kicking me to the curb. From my own standpoint it is good...
...study and an HSPH lecturer, said that his long-running College Alcohol Study, which spawned AMOD, has not found any evidence that such programs are effective by themselves. Instead, Wechsler’s study showed that a combination of policies that limit access to and consumption of alcohol better curb binge drinking and drunk driving on campuses...