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Almost every weekend in September and early October—and frequently since then—ambulances have shattered the early morning quiet with sirens blaring, rushing to take another drunken freshman to UHS. For many inexperienced first-years, these weekends are their first with ready access to alcohol. Thankfully no freshman has suffered permanent injury from alcohol this year, but the danger still looms, especially in the face of high-risk events such as Harvard-Yale. The College needs to make significant changes to encourage alcohol education and the Class of 2008 needs to see these changes...
Reid, more conservative than Daschle and many other Democrats, is antiabortion and has voted against an assault-weapons ban. But with a Westerner's quiet style and meticulous attention to detail, he has built alliances across the political spectrum during his 17 years in the Senate. "The biggest strength he has is that he always keeps his word," says liberal Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. Reid keeps note cards in his coat pocket to jot down favors requested by colleagues who buttonhole him--and to record when they're done. A skilled legislative tactician who practically camps...
After Arafat, might that dream be closer? For all the expressions of Palestinian grief as his body was returned to Ramallah on Friday, there were also quiet intimations of hope around the world--hope that the death of the unyielding Palestinian leader might bring a fresh opportunity to break the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the White House, President George W. Bush spoke of an "opening for peace" and offered hints that his second term might usher in a reinvigorated American role. Although Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could not bring himself to mention the name...
...Kooning: An American Master (Knopf; 732 pages), you get a full sense of de Kooning's quiet charm and his rollicking genius. What you also grasp is his stupendous gift fOr self-destruction. Mark Stevens, the art critic for New York magazine, and his wife, writer Annalyn Swan, have produced a superb biography, thorough and surefooted. It's a book full of nuanced readings of de Kooning's work and sympathetic but dry-eyed accounts of his very disordered life, especially in the 1970s and '80s. Those were the years when he was treated as a national treasure, even...
...Kooning's quiet charm and rollicking genius...