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This performance made valid criticism of Mansfield slightly more difficult to communicate and cleared the high road for him. So did the stand-in, which only had the effect, according to several Government 1061 students, of annoying them and giving Mansfield exactly what he wanted: the chance to appear sober...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: The Aggressive-Passive Mr. Mansfield | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

Man-made organic, however, may emerge as the real winner in the current beef shakedown. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has declared his intention to reorient agricultural policy "in the interest of the consumer" by shifting aid from industrial "agrofactories" to organic farms. Agriculture Minister Renate Künast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Without Beef | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

From Kenya's point of view, the children are one more threat to the multi-million-dollar-a-year tourist business, already reeling from political and ethnic instability and three years of drought. Driven by poverty and AIDS, which has alone orphaned some 900,000, Kenyan children continue to pour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Kids A Helping Hand | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

A defining characteristic of the "athlete culture" is the de-emphasis of academics, the authors argue. Aside from this assumption's questionable accuracy, the authors suggest no solution to the "problem" of the athlete culture. What type of culture would Shulman and Bowen envision replacing the athlete culture? The "perfect...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, | Title: Athlete Culture Adds to College | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

Using this standard allows for the more accurate assessment of drinking on campus. The Crimson staff found that about the same proportion (45 percent) of Harvard students binge drink as the national average, but that only one quarter of these students are frequent binge drinkers--half of the national average...

Author: By Henry Wechsler, | Title: A Hard Look at Binge Drinking | 2/15/2001 | See Source »

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