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From the moment the two teams took the ice to loosen up for last night's game, it was clear they held different attitudes. The grandstanding Terriers chose to skate with their helmets off. If ever there was a swagger to skating strides, the BU players tried to capture...
McIntosh, for seven years an aide to Reagan and Bush, has backed bills to streamline safety regulations for home construction and loosen clean-air and endangered-species rules. A shoving incident on a flight in May resulted in assault-and-battery charges (later dropped), but the "misunderstanding," as McIntosh calls it, is not expected to hurt his chances next week, in this Republican district...
After spending 20 years as a Christian missionary in Southeast Asia and seeing closed markets there, Tinsley is convinced that free-trade agreements such as NAFTA and GATT are a sham. Important to his forested district, Tinsley wants to loosen government prohibitions on logging, an idea in line with his general philosophy of small government...
...College's alcohol policy is reminiscent of Prohibition. And we all know that that national hypocrisy was an absolute waste of federal energies which, moreover, caused secondary illicit evils like organized crime. Dean Lewis and the administration should loosen up and keep the alcohol consumption policy in line with the more enlightened alcohol treatment policy...
Summoning my meager journalistic talents, I throw him a few softballs to loosen him up, and surprisingly, it works--except now he's sending me wildly conflicting messages. He tells me that the pipes aren't intended for illicit drug consumption, but that what people do in their homes is their business. When I ask if the company is endorsing a presidential candidate, he says Graffix has no political agenda. On the other hand, he clarifies, the election is "something we're monitoring." When he asserts that Graffix doesn't "recommend" smoking tobacco, I press him on the point, inquiring...