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...argue that Harvard’s alcohol policies push students who want to drink, particularly freshmen, to unsafely binge before going to a party rather than drink socially at the party itself. The school’s relatively new amnesty policy, which protects ill students and those who escort them to Stillman from disciplinary action, is a good one. But even if it is only this newfound comfort that is pushing the number of alcohol-related admissions steadily upward, the College ought to be more innovative with how it combats the particularly dangerous drinking culture...
...computers that would block some websites. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's proposal was promoted as a way to restrict pornography, but most of the targeted websites were political. In August 2009 the agency dropped the requirement to install the software, known as the Green Dam Youth Escort, after widespread protest from Web users and foreign computer makers...
...grasps. Later, he makes his way to the ramp leading up to the residences at Cabot. Energetically jumping over the banister, he accidentally bites his tongue, and Nalini and Sonia—Jai’s 11-year-old and 13-year-old sisters, respectively—escort him to their parents...
...ability to make policy. However, when the story first came to light, I couldn’t help recall Lisa Edelstein’s character Laurie from the hit TV show The West Wing, who was also trying to pay her way through law school by working as an escort. The point Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator and main writer, was making with this plotline was that Laurie’s chosen method of financing her education had little to do with her intelligence or abilities as a lawyer. But when a White House staffer was caught...
...daughter’s schooling, as well as several other women in similar situations. In 2006, the London Times reported that an estimated one in ten students attending a university knew someone who had at some point "stripped, lapdanced or worked at massage parlours and escort agencies to support themselves." In 2008, ABC reported a rise in the rates of prostitution and drug trafficking among school children in Papua New Guinea in order to "pay school fees." And last July, CBS’s Katie Couric told the stories of several college-attending American girls forced to turn to prostitution...