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...then I suppose 'Michael,' as he is affectionately known in the trade, is a good example." JOHN ROBERTS, Supreme Court nominee, in a memo he wrote as a young lawyer in the Reagan Administration advising against giving Michael Jackson a presidential award for his work in discouraging teens from drunk driving; Jackson received the award anyway...
JOHN ROBERTS, Supreme Court nominee, in a memo he wrote as a young lawyer in the Reagan Administration advising against giving Michael Jackson a presidential award for his work to discourage teens from drunk driving; Jackson received the award anyway...
...sensitive, but not sentimental, side on the winning ballad I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today and covers the Billie Holiday classic Good Morning Heartache in old-fashioned one-mike, one-take style. Lest anyone think she's getting classy, the title track is about being very drunk, hitting on the wrong guy and getting a tooth knocked out when "a big ole girl walked outta the blue/ 10 ft. 2 with a bad attitude." (The video features Kid Rock, the poet laureate of sloshed hookups.) "I'll never run from being trashy," says Wilson. "I love the homemade...
Then, thanks in large measure to intense lobbying by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Congress in 1984 effectively blackmailed states into hiking the minimum drinking age to 21 by passing a law that tied compliance to the distribution of federal-aid highway funds--an amount that will average $690 million per state this year. There is no doubt that the law, which achieved full 50-state compliance in 1988, saved lives, but it had the unintended consequence of creating a covert culture around alcohol as the young adult's forbidden fruit...
...culture like that is achievable at U.S. colleges if Congress can muster the fortitude to reverse a bad policy. If lawmakers want to reduce drunk driving, they should do what the Norwegians do: throw the book at offenders no matter what their age. Meanwhile, we should let the pregamers come out of their dorm rooms so that they can learn to handle alcohol like the adults we hope and expect them...