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...certain amount of trust in government is necessary to try to solve difficult problems--and difficult problems are pretty much what we'll be looking at for the foreseeable future: the national debt; the rising costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The ability to solve these problems means asking people to make a sacrifice, which requires a spirit of compromise and bipartisanship. Only then will trust in government begin to rise, and only then will voters begin to respond. What I can't agree with is the notion, expressed by the Tea Partyers...
...number of undergraduate students seeking treatment for alcohol-related illnesses at University Health Services is likely to rise for the second straight academic year, according to data provided by the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services. The figure will likely reach roughly 200 by the end of the spring term...
While the number of alcohol-related hospitalizations is on the rise, the number of undergraduates who require ambulance assistance because they have reached an inordinate degree of intoxication has remained constant, hovering at around 40 cases a semester, according to AODS Director Ryan M. Travia. These students often have the highest blood alcohol levels, he added...
...case that the rise in Stillman admissions can be attributed to students drinking larger quantities of alcohol, one potential explanation may be the stresses created by the nation’s dismal fiscal climate...
...know, we’re kind of in what Harvard fondly calls ‘midterms season,’ and that’s always a consideration,” Delaney-Smith said. “Our hope is that we rise above that, and I think that we in fact did. Could we have done better? Yes, but when you’re on the road and you have all those considerations that you have right now, I was really pleased that we came out with...