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Hubert B. Nguyen '99 agreed. "I don't think [the age limit] will have any impact on the drinking because [bars] were pretty lenient to begin with...
...carjacking by a teenager high on crack. In the summer of 1993 the drug trade had got so bad that Governor Pedro Rossello sent in the National Guard to patrol housing projects, where much of the business is conducted. Two years later, not much has changed. Judges are lenient and bail low, says Pedro Toledo, Puerto Rico's police superintendent. "We arrest people who have committed three, four, five, six murders," he says, "and yet somehow they are free on the streets...
...this first issue, one which encourages us to be lenient toward the growing power of the First Lady, must be kept in check by the inevitable reality that she is an unelected official. We did not elect her but her husband. As Robert F. Kennedy '48 illustrated during the Cuban Missile crisis, unelected officials often prove decisive in guiding United States policy. While Mrs. Clinton clearly cannot help being a source of advice to her husband, the American people have not only the right but the duty to watch her closely. Unelected power is a frightening tool, for it empowers...
Because a heavy-handed University crackdown on alcohol consumption would make the situation worse, we feel that a more effective policy would be for the administration to remain deliberately lenient in the enforcement of guidelines regarding the use of alcohol by underage students. We recognize that Harvard cannot publicly endorse moderation in underage drinking because to do so would fly in the face of the Alcohol and Drug Free School Act. The area that Harvard does have some control over is enforcement...
There are many things wrong, however, with binge drinking, not least of which are destructive behavior and illness or poisoning as a result. If the administration followed the staff's suggestion to "remain deliberately lenient" in enforcing alcohol guidelines, it would be caught in an irresponsible--and ludicrous--position...