Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Temporarily neglecting the final club scene, first-years continued the celebration at several post-formal parties...
...Harvard First-Year Formal and the Harvard Model Congress (HMC) dance were taking place in opposite corners of the Park Plaza at the same time...
...Saturday night, most of the formal committee work was done, leaving the high-school students free to dance the night away. With their transformation came another, as Harvard students switched from committee leaders to party chaperones...
...their way, they discovered a breach of security--it was possible to enter the First-Year Formal from the HMC dance through a banquet kitchen. "We have to secure this area," one of them said, and the others agreed...
Then came the next twist. A day later, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that because there was no formal agreement between the I.O.C. and the I.S.F. to ban marijuana outright, the I.O.C. could not legally strip Rebagliati of his medal. I.O.C. medical guidelines, which ban everything from cocaine to some cold remedies, qualify marijuana as "restricted" and a substance to be used "cautiously," while I.S.F. rules name pot as a prohibited drug. Said the panel: "We cannot invent prohibitions or sanctions where none appear...