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Instead, the typical reality-TV hit of 2002 took a retro format and gave it a good nose piercing. The Osbournes was a '50s nuclear-family sitcom with dog poop, drug rehab and F words. American Idol, with its aspiring teen stars and vicious-insult wars, was Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour as reconceived by Jerry Springer. And The Bachelor wed--literally--'50s gender relations with 21st century sex. The show's secret (clear to its viewers but not to the paleofeminists and moralists who decried it) is that while The Bachelor pretended to celebrate a primitive dating ritual...
...Harvard senior swimmer Elizabeth White, who had dominated the women’s 1000 free until coming down with back spasms a month ago, has completed her rehab assignment at the Crimson’s Triple A affiliate, Dartmouth. White took things easy in Hanover, coasting to third in the 1000 while not competing in the 500, opting instead to simply work herself back into shape against Columbia. White should be called up to Cambridge in time for Saturday’s meet against Penn. Harvard swimming is expected to send freshman butterfly specialist Jane Sturgeon, who has a partially...
...race for the Senate is a DEAd heat, the political trend for marijuana is clear: support is gaining. The most interesting battles on the November ballot are over pot initiatives: to allow the city of San Francisco to grow and distribute medical marijuana, to replace jail with rehab in Ohio and decriminalize marijuana use in Arizona. Many of these proposals are relatively modest, but the pro-pot forces are also raising the stakes. In spite of the electorate's contentment with the paradox of loose enforcement, some particularly powerful people on both sides have taken extreme viewpoints in an effort...
...help with AIDS wasting (see following story). But they are not the people who put the debate into high gear. A few years ago, the Drug Policy Alliance--an organization founded by billionaire philanthropist Soros, who wants to legalize marijuana and reform drug laws by replacing jail time with rehab--decided it would fund only those initiatives that could be won. So the group ran a bunch of polls to find out how America feels about the drug wars, and the reformers came up way short on everything but three policies: people preferred treatment over incarceration in some cases, people...
McDavitt, who had already fought through an entire academic year and summer’s worth of rehab to be Harvard’s leading scorer this season, shook off the obvious pain and played out the game’s final three minutes true to form...