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...served as consolation. She and her co-star once tried to alternate boozy evenings. When Ethel's memory failed, he covered for her; when he forgot his lines, she proceeded glibly, "I know what I would say in your position," and delivered his reply. One night when both were drunk, the voice of the prompter filled the air. "We know the line," Ethel growled. "We want to know who says...
...private minds eats away at public responsibility. Judges in separate courtrooms the other day pronounced sentence on Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington (six months for possession of cocaine, the drug that is tearing his city apart) and on three Northwest Airlines pilots who, while drunk one morning last spring, flew a Boeing 727 with 91 passengers aboard from Fargo, N. Dak., to Minneapolis. Mayor Barry, still running the addict's street con, portrayed himself as the victim of racial prejudice and, worse, as a man who has recovered from his problem and mended his ways...
...answer is a combination of both. Some clear-thinking Silberites were genuinely disappointed by what they perceived to be the media's lack of emphasis on the substantive issues; others like those at the election-night "party" (not drunk, by all indications) objected to the media with no rational grounds for doing...
...Harvard, Jewett's statement in an interview with The Crimson that "the person that's drunk is not always clear, is not always articulate, and that's why you get these cases" triggered an angry response from student protesters. Jewett has said that his remarks were taken out of context...
Courts in the U.S. have recognized that third parties -- for instance, a drunk driver who injures a pregnant woman -- can be sued for doing harm to a fetus. More recent is the notion that expectant mothers can be held criminally responsible for problems suffered by their fetuses. Even pregnant women who are resigned to the legalisms pervading American life might wince to learn that the child forming inside them is also a budding legal entity, possessing rights that may put it at odds with its mother even before it emerges into the world. But the idea has gathered support with...