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...College has increasingly complied with the City of Boston—and tightened the screw on the tailgate—it’s compensated undergrads handsomely, offering money and latitude to enhance the weekend in ways less likely to land them in jail. In 2006, the College Events Board (CEB) sponsored three massive parties in dining halls across campus the night before The Game. Last night, the current crop of CEB members put its putative predecessors to shame by bringing Girl Talk to Harvard Yard. Tighter restrictions on room parties be damned—infusing thousands of Yalies...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Boo F—ing Hoo | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...took a tongue-lashing from Congress before these high-tech titans did the right thing and coughed up some concrete assistance for the family of a journalist whom Yahoo! had helped send to jail...What a disgrace." - Former California Congressman Tom Lantos, after Yang appeared before a Congressional committee to discuss why Yahoo! had turned over details of two Chinese journalists' Internet activity to Chinese authorities (San Francisco Chronicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...these Yale chumps (or as we like to call them FAIL chumps...because they didn’t get into Harvard), we went straight into the mouth of the ass—that’s right, we went to Yale (or as we like to call it, JAIL...because you’d have to lock us up to stay there...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Prestige and Mobility: A Tale Of Two Cities, Including One That Sucks | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...that applies to infancy, the broader issue of childhood mental illness did have its hearing. A majority of the kids abandoned had a history of mental illness - 90% of the parents or guardians had sought state services for them before. Many had at least one parent in jail. One big hole in the safety net, said Dr. Jane Theobald, an Omaha psychiatrist and representative for the Nebraska Psychiatric Association, is that there are simply not enough facilities for troubled youngsters. A teenager who attempts suicide might stay at a general hospital for days, waiting for an opening in a mental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defending Nebraska's Child-Abandonment Law | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...tried to get a spot for him in a similar Georgia institution for six months and failed. During that long drive she reportedly told her son what was happening; she reasoned later that he would not hate her because she believed she was sparing him from a jail cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defending Nebraska's Child-Abandonment Law | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

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