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...Cambridge winters are harsher and last longer, leaving the oarsmen locked inside for a lengthy dry land season...
Promoting more vigilance in confiscating fake IDs and harsher punishment for errant students, Evans’ program will encourage colleges to inform students’ parents of their drunken malfeasance, thus effecting a double punishment—one at the university level, the other in the form of parental wrath. The threat of this retribution has caused many from Boston-area colleges to question BPD’s logic: why should someone’s student status confer upon them extra punishment? Young professionals’ parents aren’t notified of their drunken antics, yet they presumably exist...
...Boston Police Department (BPD) outlined plans for new, harsher “zero-tolerance” policies for student campuses at a meeting last Wednesday with representatives from about 10 colleges—specifically citing the Harvard-Yale game as a event which needs stricter policing...
...House surely produced great theater, but are the politicians just talking tough? Committee members repeatedly threatened to rescind baseball's antitrust exemption, which has been on the books for more than 80 years, if the sport doesn't adopt harsher drug rules. But some experts think Congress is bluffing. "Why would they do that?" asks Chicago-based sports-marketing consultant Marc Ganis. "It's an arrow in their quiver to say they'll pull it. If they did, what would they then have to hold over baseball...
According to Svetlana Boym, who is the Reisinger professor of Slavic languages and literatures and professor of comparative literature, artists in the USSR offered a “vision of Paradise” that flatly contradicted the harsher realities of political purges, labor camps, and starvation...