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...people into the stadium from the adjoining parking lots. Imagine what will happen when the alcohol (which, realistically, fuels much of the tailgate) is pushed back into the houses. I remember reaching my seat just before kickoff last year to see that roughly 30 Harvard students had actually filled their seats; the Yale side looked much the same.The fact that the oldest rivalry in college football isn’t enough to draw students away from the booze in the parking lot should be a clear indication that banning it entirely will only reduce student attendance at The Game itself.This...
...this playing out in European homes? Consider the family of 60 years ago. The paterfamilias comes home to his young wife. The baby boom that will fill maternity wards to bursting until the mid-1960s is just beginning. A child plays at her feet and the rounded belly beneath her apron suggests another is on the way. Fast-forward to the present day. What lies behind the front door? The nuclear family is not dead - some 29% of E.U. households still include dependent children - but the age gap between parents and children is widening. Mothers with old faces and young...
...Professor Rodowick gives a preference to seniors but chooses to maintain balance of all four classes,” Field wrote in an e-mail. “We could fill the class with 218 seniors...
...State Senator Steve Cohen won last month's winner-take-all Democratic primary to fill Ford's seat, with 31% overall, in a field that included a dozen black candidates. A respected, sometimes pugnacious legislator, Cohen is probably the Tennessee General Assembly's best-known liberal. The Midtown Memphis district he has represented for a quarter century contains a generous number of blacks. Indeed, Cohen carried several predominantly black precincts and two local black mayors, Willie Herenton of Memphis and A. C. Wharton of Shelby County, enthusiastically endorsed him two weeks ago in an elaborate downtown ceremony...
...Fran O'Brien's Stadium Steakhouse, located in the basement of the downtown Capital Hilton. Jim rounded up transportation and circulated the invitation on 57. Before long, Friday nights at Fran's became a tradition. Koster drew a big enough crowd a few days before Christmas to fill up four tables, amputees wielding steak knives in their hooks and hobbling to the bar on prosthetic legs...