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...case against Phi Gamma Delta, the MIT fraternity where first-year Scott Krueger died as a result of alcohol poisoning, effectively concluded last week with the frat's disbanding. With no individual fraternity member named in the indictment, the closing of the fraternity chapter effectively absolved its (ex-)members of any criminal responsibility for Krueger's death...
...Frank Carlucci and Ken Duberstein did then, the presence of Democratic veterans such as Leon Panetta in a return engagement, George Mitchell, Republican Pentagon chief William Cohen, perhaps outgoing Florida Governor Lawton Chiles would reassure the nation and Congress that the President is running a grownup shop, not a frat house or a cathouse, and would have their help in doing the nation's business...
...cliche among Institute reformers, the "educational triad" of education, research and community is a battle cry for a more integrated academic and social life--ending the traditional divide between frat and classroom...
...record buyers are abandoning the monotony of alternative rock in favor of the music smorgasbord of movie soundtrack albums, it is perhaps no surprise that the DMB has broken out. For years the band's hard-to-categorize music was scorned by serious rock critics, who considered it overblown frat rock. The group is suddenly being viewed as a legitimate, deserving successor to the great American jam-band tradition of the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers...
...liked about the U.S. was that he could "listen to everything from Pete Seeger to the Jackson Five." In 1991 he hooked up with jazz drummer Carter Beauford, saxophonist Leroi Moore, violinist Boyd Tinsley and bassist Stefan Lessard. The new band spent two long years gigging at beer-stained frat houses, molding their sound...