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When students know that they will not get in trouble for going overboard, and know that their friends are looking out for them, they said they do not feel a need to show restraint and avoid acute risks...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do Students Really Care About Binging? | 1/7/2000 | See Source »

Ainge and Rivera, by contrast, are credited for their restraint, for sacrificing lucrative and successful careers in sports for the considerations of faith or family. But the irony in this distinction is that only athletes who have already achieved greatness can opt out with the laurels of commentators...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dan-nie Baseball! | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

However, the hours currently excluded are a major restraint to the full safety benefits of universal keycard access. 1 a.m. to 8 a.m., what might in non-college contexts be considered the no-man's depth of the night, are probably the hours when students most need universal keycard access on the street, to avoid suspicious characters prowling about...

Author: By But STILL Not enough, | Title: Finish the Job | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...piece has some eerily effective moments. The sponging of a condemned man's head makes electrocution seem a sacrament: baptism and extreme unction in a single dab. The healing scenes will evoke tears, some of them earned. And there's a lot of sharp acting, led by Hanks' pained restraint. The two villains are vigorously portrayed: a sadistic, craven guard (Doug Hutchison) and a strutting, rabid inmate (played with a daringly lunatic, dark-star quality by Sam Rockwell), whose crimes are even worse than we feared. At the core, though, one finds a slacky, sappy film. The human mystery that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doing Hard Time On Death Row | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...former New Jersey senator articulated a foreign policy that emphasized both an open global economy and military restraint...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: At Tufts, Bradley Criticiques Gore on Russia | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

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