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...Though abstinence proponents like to take credit for the recent decline in teen pregnancy rates, there's nothing to say that chastity - rather than broader use of condoms - is responsible. They are also quick to trot out one part of a study of virginity pledges published last year by Peter Bearman of Columbia University and Hannah Brueckner, now of Yale University, that found students who took pledges delayed their first sexual encounter by an average of 18 months. Pro-abstinence folks conveniently neglect the portion of the study that followed the same students through their early sexual activities and found...
...production so bizarre that it inspired a fascinating documentary (Fax Barh's 1991 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse) and a full-length study (Peter Cowie's new The Apocalypse Now Book), the quality of the resulting film could be irrelevant. But despite Coppola's protestation, Apocalypse Now is a movie--the most ambitious, artful attempt to capture on film the sundering trauma of American soldiers in Southeast Asia. Like any movie, it can be assembled into any shape, any length, that its powerful auteur deems suitable. So last year Coppola went back into the jungle of his Vietnam...
...grew out of the Madison Group, a liberal law society founded at Georgetown, founded by Professor Peter J. Rubin in 1999. Plans to take the group national crystallized this spring, as founders put in place a national structure and board of directors...
...Peter Lumenello, age unknown, was arrested on Binney St. for Class D drug possession...
Shepard’s script demands that both Lee, Peter Richards ’01, and Austin, Sam McKnight (a Tufts student), know their characters intimately and portray them with a credible sense of familial history. Neither Richards nor McKnight were able to make the relationship believable; the connection needed to pull the audience into the action never evolved...