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...Yale game. For those who haven’t been keeping up, Boston police have decided to take a much harder stance on underage drinking at the tailgates this year than in years past. The Crimson reported earlier this month that Boston Police Captain William Evans wants to drastically curb public underage drinking at tailgates both at Boston College and Harvard...
...finale continues the series' minutely observed, uncomfortable humor. The closest American equivalent is Curb Your Enthusiasm, though NBC is attempting a remake of The Office, starring Daily Show alum Steve Carell, for next year--a nerve-racking prospect, given that NBC's last such import was Coupling. Executive producer Greg Daniels (King of the Hill) says the show will have a new setting--the Dunder-Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pa.--but similar characters and sensibility. "We love the awkward pause," he says...
...Asked how he would curb Iran's suspected nuclear-arms ambitions, President replied: "I hope we can do the same thing [as in the administration's multilateral diplomatic approach North Korea], continue to work with the world to convince the Iranian mullahs to abandon their nuclear ambitions. We worked very closely with the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Great Britain, who have been the folks delivering the message to the mullahs that if you expect to be part of the world of nations, get rid of your nuclear programs...
When the Bi-Partisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) was signed into law by President Bush in 2002—the ever touted McCain-Feingold effort—its fundamental purpose was to curb outrageous campaign contributions that had been the source of so much political woe. Yet, on both sides of the political spectrum, groups quickly mobilized to find ways around the legislation, establishing all sorts of loophole groups that fell under the radar of soft-money restraints. The Swift Boat Veterans and their Texan philanthropists are simply a flagrant example of the way in which these groups are succeeding...
...only way out of this mess is both to make a serious effort to curb demand and to make a real investment in alternative sources of energy. Since HR 6 does neither—it basically just ups subsidies for oil suppliers—the EIA’s findings should come as little surprise. Kerry’s energy proposal, by contrast, mandates both. Whether he would have the political conviction to see them through is another matter...