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...rule of law-did not exist. Religious parties had won, or gained momentum, in most of these elections, and the U.S. had backtracked, refusing to accept the Hamas victory in the Palestinian territories, re-embracing autocrats like Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. "Our indigenous democratic reformers," Khouri said, "are in retreat across the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Persian Gulf Primary | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...Calif, head of the North American Swing Club Association, believes the economy is probably the major factor in the recent decline of swinging, a euphemism for mate swapping and group sex. Attendance at swing parties, he says, dropped 15% to 30% in early 1983, and attendance at Plato's Retreat, a Manhattan sex parlor, was down 40% in the same period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Is Over | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

...Most of the chairs at the retreat hadn’t learned about the policy. Many didn’t know hard liquor was banned or that the party deadline was made earlier,” Murrell said, adding that, unlike Mather, “none of the other Houses had taken steps to enforce the policy...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Alcohol Policy Confuses HoCos | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

Cabot HoCo Co-Chair Thomas R. Benson ’09 said that before last weekend’s retreat, he “knew that hard liquor was a very iffy area in the eyes of the College” but did not know that it was officially and explicitly prohibited at HoCo events...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Alcohol Policy Confuses HoCos | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

Numerous other HoCo chairs who attended the retreat said it shed light on what Undergraduate Council Vice President Randall S. Sarafa ’09 has called a “vague” policy...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Alcohol Policy Confuses HoCos | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

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