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...sufficiently responsible to imbibe alcoholic beverages. Further, a basic premise of American liberty is that freedom allows for the flourishing of virtue. Eighteen-year-olds should be allowed to develop temperate drinking habits under the sanction of the law. The current federal statute in this country--which restricts highway funding if states do not comply--does nothing to change the cultural mores of college students. It merely forces an entirely legitimate pastime underground. Finally, the Congressional law prohibiting campus administrators from taking a softer line toward responsible drinking is endangering students by driving elicit drinking even farther from those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alcohol Statement Disappointing | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Lowering the legal drinking age will only intensify the problem of high school alcohol abuse and increase the number of fatalities due to drunk driving--the legitimate basis of the federal highway law in the first place. For the sake of the health, welfare and safety of Americans of all ages, leave the drinking...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Keep Drinking Age at 21 | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...turned into "piggy-chops." Obsessed with this image of flayed pig, Timothy steals money from his invalid aunt and invades his uncle-in-law's home. Soon, as a result of the desire of an unsympathetic cousin to be rid of him, Timothy finds himself speeding down the highway on a motorcycle under the influence of a powerful hallucinogenic drug...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fragmented Plot, Offbeat Characters, Humor Fill Pages of `The Midden' | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Forger currently plays for North Prospect Church near Porter Square, but he says his formative experience as an organist occurred during high school while playing at Kings Highway United Methodist Church in Brooklyn...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Organists Are Just Normal People | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Thanks to Simon & Schuster, ignorance of MTV trivia never again has to be a road block on the highway of coolness. Finally, the appearance of being the kind of slacker who watches six hours of MTV a day, as well as an expertise on campy 70s music can be had for under $60. A set of new books in the spirit of music television delve into three crucial series, which capture the essence of MTV cool...

Author: By Josh N. Lambert, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some Literature for the Illiterate: The MTV Generation Hits the Books | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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