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...more than 6 million full-time college students in America," writes Wechsler in a July 1995 article in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). The difficulty for college officials, who must be careful not to give the appearance of condoning violations of the law, is to enact realistic policies. For many schools, it means encouraging abstinence for students under 21, many of whom drink regardless of legal restrictions...
Wechsler's behavioral approach has certain key advantages for administrators seeking to enact policy because it undercuts the difficulties faced by colleges trying to reach underage students involved in drinking who may not respond to a message stressing only abstinence. In his December 1994 AJPH article, Wechsler concludes that colleges who hope to reduce binge drinking on their campus "should focus on frequent binge drinkers, refer them to treatment or educational programs and emphasize the harm they cause for students who are not binge drinkers...
Even when "family preservation" is the right goal in theory, caseworkers say, it is becoming increasingly difficult to enact, owing to wholesale cuts in the programs they use to shore up a household in crisis. Drug and alcohol counseling, mental-health services, emergency housing funds, day care, homemaker assistance and parenting courses have already been scaled back in most places, and may disappear entirely under the legislation that Congress is considering, which would also slice up to $2.9 billion more from child-protection services nationwide. Republican cost cutters insist that the states can do more with less...
...Israel it is customary for confessed murderers to re-enact their crimes, and Amir performed so smoothly that there can be no doubt about what he did and how he did it. What kind of help he had, however, is still unresolved. Security forces keep proclaiming the assassination sprang from a conspiracy, but they have yet to offer hard evidence of the theory. Police and secret-service interrogators have spent days questioning the eight young religious zealots in custody, yet they do not seem to have found proof of an organized network acting on orders from any hierarchy...
...since Lyndon Johnson has been a more effective Senate leader. Dole is the master of the half loaf. He trades with those who hold high cards for whatever he can extract in policy or political terms. In the past few months of high drama, as Congress sought to enact the G.O.P.'s budget, Dole's work on welfare reform displayed both his mastery of the process and his underlying ideology...