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Your editorial contributes to the perception that MIT is a hub for binge drinking. A little homework reveals how absurd that perception is. A 1998 study by Henry Wechsler, director of College Alcohol Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health, found binge drinking at MIT to be at about half the national average, at 23 percent. The study also found that about a third of MIT students do not drink, whereas only 19 percent abstain nationwide...
...media has scrutinized MIT in the wake of Scott Krueger's tragic death. The problems that this scrutiny has revealed are not unique to the Institute. I can personally attest to instances of underage binge drinking and public urination at Harvard...
...Didn't Celine Dion say she was going to semi-retire for two years? Doesn't that mean from all public view? We don't want books, we don't want CD's (she just released another one!), we don't want to hear your voice or read your words for 730 days. Capiche...
...election where public opinion is largely like a bowl of lukewarm cream of wheat, Buchanan has felt the ire and vitriol of countless columnists and commentators. While no one has risen to heights of indignation over Bush or Bradley, Buchanan has left a trail of incendiary and occasionally offensive comments from his previous two presidential runs and "off season" political columns. They range from his proposal to build a triple wall along the Mexican border patrolled by the National Guard to his new book questioning American involvement in WWII. He has pledged that, under a Buchanan regime, the "Chinese...
...concept of international public health was very nebulous for me before I went to India and got to really experience the issues involved," she says...