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...them. For instance, the Radcliffe Child Care Center below the DeWolfe apartments affects students in Lowell House. All in all, 10 of the 12 houses fall fully or partially within school zones. There is nothing necessarily wrong with the law’s underlying logic, which considers giving minors access to controlled substances a higher crime than simply possessing drugs. The law was sold to the public and the legislature in 1989 by then-Governor Michael Dukakis on the idea that it would punish those who would put drugs into children’s hands. Similar laws have ameliorated...
...world. Shinnenkai are parties that celebrate the New Year, the most important holiday on the Japanese calendar. They can be intimate affairs for family and friends, or, as in the case of Dentsu, they can be massive events involving the personnel, budget and planning required for a minor military campaign. Every significant corporation in Japan throws a shinnenkai for workers, clients and peers, but Dentsu's is beyond compare. Simply accommodating the more than 4,000 guests required that they attend in four shifts of two hours each. Dentsu wouldn't reveal the cost of Tuesday's event, but word...
...will significantly reduce this social dynamic of the dining hall. Students on a mixed meal plan will have to think twice about tapping their weekly allotment for any given meal. And failing to swipe in or leaving the dining hall with food in hand, rather than constituting minor misdemeanors, could quite literally come to be viewed as theft...
...place an eerie, permanent-postgrad feel - a kind of constantly renewed high school scene unfolding amid all the power and prestige of the Capitol. That's especially true on the first day of a new Congress, and today, amid the pomp and revelry of the Democratic takeover, a hundred minor dramas brought it all back...
...Ford's minor claim on a presidential legacy came about in part because the skilled House gamesman was not prepared to manage expectations once he was elevated into the presidency. Observers assumed that he would tack hard to the side of openness and sunlight to escape Nixon's shadow. But he wound up relying on a coterie of insiders - Nixon's own shadows - from Henry Kissinger to the young Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who had no less zeal for the imperial presidency than their predecessors under Nixon...