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...claim to have lived, really and truly, until he has staggered drunkenly down Mt. Auburn Street singing Disney songs at the top of his voice, hurling snowballs through an open window in the Fly and bemoaning the girls (or guys) who got away. The Harvardian who has never been drunk, who has been too delicate, sensitive and yes, too scared to kneel before King Bacchus--well, I wish him the best, but he has just plain missed...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: A Toast to Binge Drinking | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...part hokum, part harrowing portrait of an old performer (we won't say self-portrait). Odets' form of dramaturgy is to load the dice against the Kelly character, then let her load the gun against Crosby and Holden. Crosby is the least shrill; that is part of his drunk's cunning. Frank lies in the same melodic, trombonish tone that Crosby had used to project sincerity for a quarter century. But when he's not pushing the blarney, he gives subtle glimpses of the decay that age and alcohol etches in a man. His face is fallen, creased with defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...findings were grim: 20-year-olds who?d had DARE classes were no less likely to have smoked marijuana or cigarettes, drunk alcohol, used "illicit" drugs like cocaine or heroin, or caved in to peer pressure than kids who?d never been exposed to DARE. But that wasn?t all. "Surprisingly," the article states, "DARE status in the sixth grade was negatively related to self-esteem at age 20, indicating that individuals who were exposed to DARE in the sixth grade had lower levels of self-esteem 10 years later." Another study, performed at the University of Illinois, suggests some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Say No to DARE | 2/15/2001 | See Source »

...Last year, at the Cabot Senior Dinner, I saw a few people who just didn't know how to act. One man got drunk and threw his feet up on the table," Bourneuf said. "I decided to go to OCS and see about starting this program...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Learn Fine Art of Interview Dining | 2/14/2001 | See Source »

...report "Survey Confirms Alcohol Stereotypes" (News, Feb. 12) discusses the attitudes of various religious communities towards alcohol use and implies that the Jewish community supports drinking through quotes such as, "In fact, on Purim, you're supposed to get drunk." (Purim is the springtime holiday that commemorates deliverance from national obliteration, and is celebrated with merriment and satire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/13/2001 | See Source »

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