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...long as students "have access to alcohol, they will create drinking games out of any activity," he says. More to the point, if students have access to alcohol, they'll drink it - no games necessary. "You can't drink if you're not 21, but that does not seem to have deterred [students] in any way," admits Tammy Gocial, dean of students at Kenyon College in Ohio, where a drinking-game ban has been officially repealed. Gocial notes that it's already against the law for underage students to drink, so "to do the same thing [with a campus...
...McCain has acknowledged some of these problems - especially the need for a new energy policy - but he doesn't seem to have a comprehensive strategy. (McCain's economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin didn't respond to my calls.) McCain's energy answers are often traditional - drilling for oil offshore, building new nuclear-power plants - and occasionally courageous. To the dismay of most Republicans, he supports a cap-and-trade program to limit carbon emissions, although the candidate himself seems not to fully understand that a hidden carbon tax is involved. McCain's opposition to disgraceful boondoggles like the farm bill...
...Obama's path certainly has risks. As conservatives always - rightly - warn, government isn't nearly as efficient as the market in figuring out the most effective new technologies. Spending money on infrastructure may prove inflationary given the current size of the deficit - although $21 billion per year doesn't seem all that much after an Administration that spent $10 billion per month in Iraq. "You can argue that there's a need for short-term deficit spending," says one of Obama's economic advisers, "but in the end, he's going to have to get back to fiscal responsibility." Ultimately...
...released, Obama adviser David Axelrod struck back along these lines. "It makes you wonder who's behind all this, because this isn't the John McCain we expected," Axelrod said in an interview on MSNBC. Obama himself chimed in at a campaign stop in Missouri. "He doesn't seem to have anything to say very positive about himself," Obama said of McCain. "He seems to only be talking about me. You need to ask John McCain what he's for and not just what he's against...
Following the rejection of McKinnon's appeal against extradition, the hacker's lawyer claimed that the British government had decided not to prosecute him under U.K. law so that the U.S. could "make an example of him" - a charge that carries some uncomfortable echoes. "They do seem to be going to inordinate lengths to get this guy extradited," notes Jordan, "but they could as much be making a point about extradition laws as about computer crime." It's possible, he says, "that the Bush Administration's hard line is of a piece with the kind of things we've seen...