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...puritans. Pragmatists believe that resistance to student alcohol consumption is futile. College students are bound to drink no matter how high the penalties—better to do what you can to promote responsible drinking habits and provide safe environments for students to drink. Puritans, in contrast, take a dimmer view of underage alcohol consumption. The law says underage students shouldn’t touch fire water, and those who do will get burned...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Toast to Futility | 10/5/2004 | See Source »

While Connaughton pitched his perspective as an optimistic one, some environmentalists have taken a dimmer view...

Author: By Seth H. Robinson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bush Adviser Backs Environmental Plan | 4/2/2003 | See Source »

...time, while she went out to work. We managed. But what a waste. A man who had been a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, surviving the horrors of the fighting on Guadalcanal, slaughtered because some twit driver forgot his dimmer switch. Over the half-century since that night, I've wondered what it might have been like to pronounce the word Dad rather than just write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roads to Ruin | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

...Japan's celebrity circuit, there are no bigger cats than the Kano sisters. Not a day goes by without one of them hogging airtime on a TV variety show, hawking breast-enhancing vitamins in commercials or eclipsing dimmer stars on the gossip pages. But these sisters don't serve aces like the Williamses, headline playbills like the Redgraves or write classics like the Bront?s. Their explosive fame could only happen in Japan, where the only job requirement for a tarento, or talent, is showing up in front of a TV camera. Undaunted by a lack of categorical expertise, the sisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Tokyo, with Love | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...getting Skynyrd to play a ballad b) playing with the dimmer switch on their tiny little butts c) releasing nitric oxide d) clapping with their tiny little wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jul. 9, 2001 | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

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