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...legislation requires colleges and universities to enforce state alcohol laws or risk losing federal funds. In response, Harvard has banned liquor from parties in first-year dormitories and asked house tutors to take action when they encounter students under 21 being served alcohol...
...keeping with the Wahhabi tradition, liquor, pornography and gambling are forbidden. Movies and dancing are also not permitted. Videos, books and publications are heavily censored; copies of this issue of TIME, for example, are certain to be banned from the kingdom. The Saudis enforce Islamic laws of justice to the letter. In the city squares, the hands of thieves are chopped off, adulterers are stoned to death, murderers and rapists are beheaded, and lesser offenders are flogged...
...Even liberals tend to believe the country's methods deter crime better than those of the West. The prohibitions on drinking and other vices do not rankle much. Many simply get around them by leading double lives: pious in public, more freewheeling at home and on overseas forays. Bootleg liquor is easily available. The euphemism for home-brew whiskey is "brown," while gin is called "white"; at parties people will say, "I'll have some brown in a + Coke," or "I'll have some white in a Sprite...
...PAST years, first-year students needed all of five minutes on the Harvard campus to discover that the University's policy on underage drinking was a joke. Beer, wine and hard liquor flowed freely at parties large and small, and in all but the most extreme cases, Harvard was content to ignore...
...businessmen. Former Guinness PLC chairman Ernest Saunders was sentenced to five years in prison for masterminding an illegal operation to boost the stock price of the famed $11.6 billion brewing and distilling group and thus helping the company win its successful $5.23 billion takeover battle for Distillers, the Scottish liquor maker. Investigators first became aware of the Guinness scheme, described as one of the biggest financial scandals in British history, when U.S. inside-trader Ivan Boesky disclosed some of the details...