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Drinking, everyone must acknowledge, is a perennial college pastime, which has contributed to the gaiety of the undergraduate experience for centuries. The current laws of the United States, which effectively impose a minimum drinking age of 21, have not changed for the better the cultural mores of the people whom they attempt to regulate. Rather, they have served to infantilize the entire collegeaged population and create taboos which make alcohol all the more desirable. And when such individuals are legally excluded from bars and clubs, they are denied legitimate access to public places...
City councillor and former mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 says Wolf's support of expanded public health benefits, a higher minimum wage and the "expiring use" provision, designed to create affordable housing, endeared her to working class voters and tenants in this formerly rent-controlled city...
...previous debates, Weld said mandatory minimum sentences--or the death penalty for certain violent crimes--would deter criminals. Kerry instead advocated a "death by incarceration" policy...
...sprawling Ohio district with billboards urging voters to SEND THE WHITE HOUSE A MESSAGE. These days his campaign is more likely to draw attention to the personal thank-you note Cremeans got from Bill Clinton last month for bucking Newt Gingrich and supporting a 90[cents]-an-hour minimum-wage hike. Fellow G.O.P. freshman Phil English, who maligned his 1994 opponent by labeling him a "Clinton clone," got a note too; he was so moved he announced it at a news conference back home in Erie, Pennsylvania. But neither Republican has anything on two-term Representative Peter Blute, who stood...
...President John McSweeney stood with Clinton during the Democratic Convention, symbolizing their partnership, which Clinton solidified with a minimum wage hike and additional tax credits for the working poor...