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Melissa Lee and Robin J. Stamm contributedto the reporting of this article.Crimson File PhotoWhile College alcohol laws have changed,laws regulating buying alcohol have not. Studentsmust still be 21 or older to purchase alcohol. Acustomer has his ID checked by a store clerk...
...hosts of this weekend's Harvard Invitational blew through the tournament's round-robin first round, defeating Northeastern (3-1) and Dartmouth (3-0) before falling to Holy Cross...
...even hundreds of thousands of gay parents, why do they seem so invisible? Mostly because they fear harassment and want to shield their children from turmoil. Who are these people, and how are their children faring? In the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Sandra Russo and Robin Young are rearing Cade, 13, and Ry, 11, their respective biological daughters via artificial insemination. The children's nurturing home life and studied imperviousness to teasing have turned around their peers. Says Ry: "After a while they get it. Some kids are a little slow...
...Haydenville, Massachusetts, Barbara Allen and Robin Juris are providing their biological children Hannah, 7, and Cody, 3, with the rural environment lacking in their former home in Oakland, California. They inseminated each other using the sperm of casual friends and took extensive, though not uncommon, legal precautions to avoid facing a custody dispute. "In our hearts we trusted these men," says Allen, "but we also wrote up a contract." The children have met their biological fathers; that word, however, is never used. Says Allen: "They are donors. They don't have a role that would approximate the real role...
...alarms. In Britain, where, in addition to his TV interests, Murdoch controls one-third of the circulation of the country's national daily newspapers, critics complain that his voice threatens to drown out all others. "It's not healthy for democracy, and it's not healthy for competition," says Robin Cook, a Labour Party spokesman. But in nondemocratic Asia, some experts draw the opposite conclusion about the acquisition of STAR TV. "This has considerable political, social and cultural implications," says Anne Thompson, a media analyst for Mees Pierson Securities in Hong Kong. "Repressive governments can't control information...