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...girls who casually pick fights, have sex and keep the emergency services fully occupied are often fueled by cheap booze. British youngsters drink their Continental European counterparts under the table: in 2003, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), 27% of British 15-year-olds had been drunk 20 times or more, compared to 12% of young Germans, 6% of Netherlands youth and only 3% of young French. British kids were also involved more frequently in fights (44% in the U.K. to 28% in Germany). They are more likely to try drugs or start smoking young. English girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Mean Streets | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

Hints of late-morning vodka and the buzz of rivalrous housing chants wafted in front of Annenberg Hall yesterday as residents of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate Houses welcomed freshmen to their newly assigned residences.“We’re hot, we’re drunk, we’re going to the Quad!” chanted a horde of Cabot residents before a line of freshmen waiting to get inside the dining hall.A menagerie of House mascots paraded the surrounding lawn, only adding to the morning’s competitive atmosphere.The Mather Gorilla, who declined...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Horde of Mascots Welcomes New House Members | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...think a football rivalry articulated by getting wasted at 10 a.m., the jingoism about arbitrary placement in a dorm, and a week of pomp and circumstance make a school spirited. These are all rituals, in which it’s easy to go through the motions, get drunk, and wear a vaguely chauvinist House pride t-shirt...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore | Title: March Madness | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...Friends,” Cadence Weapon deliversdeadpan reflections about the friends andpast he has left behind over multiple layersof beatboxing. Lyrics like “I officiallyblock senders...so I apologize for this confirmationof the touring musician stereotype/ I’m the same guy who’s drunk andprobably a bit bored” confirm that whileCadence might miss his friends, he’s capableof writing fine without them.After the sluggish pace of the firsttrack, Cadence Weapon ramps up thetempo and doesn’t look back.The real genius of “Afterparty Babies?...

Author: By Katherine L. Miller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cadence Weapon | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...Georgians, this is no laughing matter. The state doesn't really want those 150 sq. miles back (they were erroneously included in Tennessee by surveyors who were either drunk, afraid of Indians or using faulty equipment). Georgia, however, does want access to the water Tennessee law currently says cannot be transferred out of state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The (Water) War Between the States | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

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