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...number of conclusive studies in Europe and the United States show that, in the long run, stricter punishments for drunk driving don't affect the death rate. Immediately after tough new laws are passed, there is only a temporary dip in the number of drunk driving incidents, the DWI level returning to its previous level within two years...
...such cheap strategy would be to stamp "Convicted of Driving While Intoxicated" on the driver's license of anyone guilty of DWI. A DWI offender would be stigmatized whenever he writes a check at a local supermarket, or gets carded in a local bar. Nobody wants a gossipy supermarket clerk to know he drove drunk...
Along the same lines, whenever a DWI offender registered a car or had it inspected, the registraton official could check to see that there was stenciled in red on the front doors, "Caution: The owner of this car is a DWI offender." If a crime can't be hidden from the neighbors or the people at work, it is much less likely to be committed...
...three separate incidents, three unnamed Harvard administrators are picked up for a hit-and-run decimation of a Memorial Drive lamppost, overturning the guard house on the way out of the Yard, and trashing the new sculpture next to Out of Town News. All three are charged with DWI. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III graciously leaves a black-tie gala to bail them out of the Cambridge Police Department jail...
...Intianto Dwi Soekaimi, a 19-year-old Indonesian staying in Hingham, Mass., said he decided this weekend that Harvard students do work hard. "My impression is that every Harvard kid doesn't care how he looks," Soekaimi said, adding. "I think they spend most of their time studying because of their long hair, their beards and moustaches...