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...traditional town meeting has its roots in the agora of ancient Athens, a place for sober, if contentious, deliberation. The Clintonized town meeting has a rather less noble lineage. It is the offspring of Phil Donahue, who, true to his format, once wore a dress to enliven the proceedings. The President hasn't gone that far--not quite. But who can forget his town meeting on MTV in 1993? "Boxers or briefs?" asked a budding Walter Lippmann in the studio audience. The President could have turned the question aside. "Madam," he might have said, "that is a private matter between...
...previous decades, Harvard academics (including Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom) and prominent district residents toyed with the idea of running against O'Neill for the seat, but, upon sober reflection, most bowed...
After a month of cold showers, water valve will be fixed. Guess residents will have to find a new way to keep sober...
...find some way to kill the time. Newspapers offer up the new and different on a daily basis. Whether it's the latest dish on Monica's fetishes or a more sober update on Saddam's antics, the events and personalities amount to a collection of on-going stories, almost a serial novel, which one can follow with baited breath anew each morning. The missing element, however, is completion, an elusive goal at best, but a deep human longing nonetheless...
What is disturbing is many students' inability to let down their guard and relax while sober. Dancing is scarce at many campus parties, and the little that takes place is terribly inhibited. Most students, especially men, refuse to dance before downing a beer. After that beer, one might hope for good company. But inevitably, someone broaches the topic of schoolwork, likely to complain about how many pages there are to write the next morning for one class or another. Papers as cocktail talk? Professors would be pleased, but there are no TFs around to award brownie points. The whole thing...