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Even the chair of Wellesley College's Alcohol Advisory Committee S. Joanne Murray, who presided over the adoption of a policy focusing more on education than enforcement, concedes that "there is some evidence that it's a good deterrent to notify parents." Wellesley town police pushed hard for the college to adopt their zero tolerance policy, according to published reports last year...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Puritan Beantown: Hub Cracks Down on Alcohol | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

...cupped their hands to follow him. Why? Because those who cupped their hands were taking just what they needed, a sign they were there out of commitment. And in a meeting with his staff the next morning, he drew on the work of a Scottish mountain climber, W.H. Murray: "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy...the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too." Tearful campaign workers lined the walls a few moments later as Gore announced to reporters: "It's a new campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: What It Took | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

However, it is the defense that will provide the boost for the Big Red. Captains Danny Powell and Larry Pierce will anchor the blueline with Mark McRae and Doug Murray. A combination of size and physical play will pose the most problems to an offensively-minded Crimson squad...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Going North: M. Hockey to Face Cornell, Colgate | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...Music. Perhaps my proximity to the mirror ball overhead clouds my judgment, but it is my distinct impression that my skull has been imploded by the virtuoso performance of Buddy Cage, the Riders' pedal steel player. Cage is the real deal, a country veteran who played on Anne Murray's first five albums; in contrast, the Dead's Jerry Garcia, the New Riders' original steel player, was a relative dilettante on the instrument who happened to play the steel break on Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Teach your Children." Garcia got by on his marvelous musicality rather than any real technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing the Mettle of a Pedal Steeler | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

That's it, boys - bring on the lawyers. Let them descend from the hills after the battle (in the late Murray Kempton's phrase) in order to shoot the wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Injection of Lawyers Will Harm the Nation | 11/10/2000 | See Source »

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