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...preaching middle class values while denying many Americans middle class options simply dodges the problem. As Smeal pointed out, it takes a certain audacity for an all male "Face the Nation" panel and a CBS docu-drama to question the morals of young Blacks. Those who now preach about lax sexual mores are the same ones who not so long ago closed their eyes and ears to the problem...
...there wasn't some truth to allegations of poor maintenance and lax security precautions, then surely the University wouldn't work to cover them...
Even if it did, minors wouldn't have much chance of getting one. The agency promised Harvard two years that it would demand proof of age from all its patrons. Although HSA has been lax, no underage student will be drinking English ale, French champagne, Spanish sangaria and German bier on an international i.d. "Over the summer we had some problems with it because we didn't really know the policy," she says, "But ever since school started, we've been really strict about checking the birth date...
Sonni certainly shrugs a lot, too. A year ago, he owned a guitar store in Greenwich Village, the only distinction of which was that a certain British rock star used to shop there. Because said star (whose last name happens to be Knopfler) runs through rhythm guitarists like Ex-lax through Ronald Reagan's digestive tract, Sonni joined up and became a juke-box hero and heir apparent and all that good stuff...
...Italian ship was both a vulnerable and effective target because of its lax security and its likelihood of capturing American attention, the professors said...