Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emphasis Brown placed on Hann's drunken behavior in explaining its decision to the press, then, serves to obscure the fact that the main charge against him was violation of the hate speech rules, and that his drunkenness was a secondary offense. The real problem is the university's emphasis on a rule that mainly restricts what students say, and not how they say it. The university's primary complaint against him was ideological, and the suppression was a violation of his First Amendment rights...
With his customary common sense, Thomas Jefferson in 1791 applauded a congressional bill that subjected liquor, but not American-made wines, to an excise tax. "It is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich," he wrote. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Jefferson, alas, failed miserably to convert fellow citizens to his favorite beverage. Americans last year drank 23.5 gal. of beer and 26.6 gal. of coffee per capita but only 2.1 gal. of wine...
Steve Petersen and Jeff Branion as the drunken cohorts Trinculo and Stephano are the delightful exceptions in The Tempest, their comic rapport is as convincing as it is entertaining. And John Ducey as Caliban frequently conveys the pathos and grotesqueness of his character effectively. But their performances are not enough to redeem a production rendered in a dramatic monochrome...
...Sparks can't tip a cow, no number of drunken suburban weenies have a chance...
...sexual assaults on college campuses are perpetrated by athletes; fraternities are blamed for the majority of such attacks. Where are the coaches, the administrators, the alumni forever touting the value of male bonding? Where is the outrage from the good kids, the ones who don't gang-rape the drunken girl at the beer blast but hear their friends snickering about it the next...