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Schools have traditionally taken up the slack when police were lenient, and they are not relaxing any. For instance, Mills says one BC student was suspended for a semester for possessing two fake...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Puritan Beantown: Hub Cracks Down on Alcohol | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

...European Union, led by France, nixed a compromise deal on the grounds that it cut the U.S. and other big polluters too much slack. The U.S. plan would have adjusted greenhouse gas emission figures to take "sinks," forests and other growing plants that absorb carbon dioxide, into account. The failure of the talks may have come as a relief to big oil-producing countries that might have seen demand for oil drop if industrialized countries were forced into investing in alternate energy sources. Indeed, as recently as September, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and other members of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: The Cost of Bickering Over Global Warming | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...funny moments in his movies and I think his new movie is actually a step beyond. There's more of a concept to it than his other movies. There's a world in there. He worked harder on it than any other script. I hope critics cut him some slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'I Was the Class Comedy Bully' | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...thing, Harvard got in to early foul trouble and played like it. Not enough bench players picked up the slack when starters like forward Sam Winter, Clemente and guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman got their third fouls early in the second half. In one instance, stupidity may have cost the Crimson the chance...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The RaHooligan: First Impressions | 11/22/2000 | See Source »

Senior goaltender Oli Jonas picked up much of the defensive slack, holding the Terriers' to only one goal during a two-man advantage at 8:47 in the second that lasted almost two full minutes...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: This Just In: Harvard's Good | 11/22/2000 | See Source »

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