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...books in one hand, a brown paper bag containing a beer bottle in the other. He takes a swig, then passes bag and bottle to a classmate. In a San Francisco suburb, several high school freshmen show up for class drunk every morning, while others sneak off for a nip or two of whisky during the lunch recess. On the campuses the beer bash is fashionable once again, and lowered drinking ages have made liquor the high without the hassle...
...Always a much more complex man than his natural ebullience and everpresent pipe suggest, he provides few glimpses of his inner self and has no close political cronies. At 58, his tastes, like his upbringing as the son of a Yorkshire industrial chemist, are unpretentious: detective stories, raspberries, a nip of brandy. Each summer, he spends three weeks in his cottage on the desolate Scilly Isles (where a local Tory was obliged to fish him out of the sea last summer when his dinghy overturned...
...crimes remain crimes once committed, and Saturday night added a final theft to the season, as Brown's Lloyd Desvigne sank a game-winning jump shot at the buzzer to nip the Crimson, 56-54, and deprive Harvard of a .500 season for the first time in four years. Tom Sanders's squad finishes 11-13 and fourth in the Ivy League...
...suit was typical of Nader's activities in recent years. He sees his role as "not just disclosure any more, but follow-up with lawsuits and other actions." To do that, he has assembled a pack of consumerist organizations that nip at the heels of top dogs in both business and government. His Public Citizen, Inc., for example, supports four young lawyers who have peppered the government with lawsuits. In one they are attempting to force the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration -ironically, an agency created in response to Nader's prodding-to release used-car safety standards...
...They rowed an extremely intelligent and sophisticated race," an ebullient John Baker said of his Radcliffe squad after the contest. "We were nip and tuck with Williams the first half, but we didn't break under the pressure of a close race and moved out steadily in the last 500," the coach added...