Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quad residents party better than other students: If you have to travel all the way to Boston, you might as well get drunk on the way. After all, the shuttle could keep you stacked up over Cambridge for many hours. Better bring a six-pack or two for the trip down...
...contests were filled with many tight races and lots of nasty language flying back and forth between candidates. In Wisconsin, Republican Frank Kasten and opponent Ed Garvey slung heaps of sludge at each other, resulting in negative voter ratings of over 50 percent for both. Kasten, who had two drunk driving convictions during in his first six years in Washington, narrowly edged Garvey, who was accused falsely by Kasten of embezzling $750,000 from the National Football Players Association. Apparently voters prefer a drunk to a thief...
...gift of humor. It buffered him from harsh experience and provided the equanimity evident in his work both as a writer and a physician. Medicine suited his compassionate temperament and the need for a career to support his family after his father became a bankrupt and a drunk. Chekhov never shirked this responsibility; it became one reason not to start a family of his own. The other, more powerful rationale was his attraction to writing. In this matter, Troyat is particularly poignant, one might even say Chekhovian: "What was a woman to him, no matter how desirable, when his life...
Garvey struck back with ads about Kasten's arrest in Washington, D.C., for drunk driving--while the Senate was in session debating farm policy...
...personal level, it is tragic for the Steel's to have their sorrow compounded by insinuations that their daughter got what she deserved. And on the political level, it is tragic because it encourages politicians to speak of divine evils instead of working to combat serious problems such as drunk driving...