Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...destructiveness is growing, the sheer number of alcoholics shows no sign of abating. Young people are especially vulnerable. Bowen states that nearly 5 million adolescents, or three in every ten, have drinking problems. Several studies show that children are beginning to drink earlier than ever before, and a Weekly Reader study earlier this year reported that 36% of fourth-graders were pressured by peers to drink. "Kids are making decisions about alcohol and drugs when they are 12 to 14, whereas in the preceding generation they made those decisions at ages 16 to 18," says Lee Dogoloff, executive director...
...lucky man who can write his own eulogy. And this, dear reader, is mine...
...that, dear reader, rhymes with goodbye...
Editor's note: In the interest of providing you, the reader, with an insight into the workings of the Yale Daily, we have decided to institute a daily column to let you, the reader, know just what's going on here at the Daily and in the lives of two of its most popular editors--Christie and Dave! (Or Christine and David, as they are known to their friends...
...reader's sympathy swings against Mgungu early on in the novel. At one point, he describes himself as "A brutal and violently ignorant savage, though charming in a primitive way, who was fleeing his wives and 13 children for the charms of a young American, possibly even the Hamptons and the New York Film Festival if everything went well and I played my cards right." This is meant to be satirical, I suppose, but it's so clumsily executed and so misses its easy targets that one really can't be sure...