Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word 'party' has become synonymous with drinking," says Henry Wechsler, a social psychology lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...first and most obvious set of difficulties arises as an immediate result of alcohol abuse. These short-term problems include conflicts in social relationships at home or at school, poor performance in the classroom, alcohol-related injuries and legal or disciplinary trouble resulting from acts committed under the influence...
...York the instinct to "Garland" the monstrous -- to extenuate brutality and make a victim of the victimizer -- is more attenuated than in the Ivy League. The New York tabloids, the moral voice of the community, are full-throated in their vilification of the monstrous "wolf pack." It is their social betters, those from the helping professions, who have lost their moral compass. It is they who would Garland this attack if they could...
CITIZENS, A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama (Knopf; $29.95). Exactly 200 years after the bloody facts, a Harvard historian offers a fascinating, often surprising account of what went right -- and wrong -- during one of the world's most celebrated social convulsions...
...northern neighbor Mauritania are not unusual, thanks to the fondness of Mauritanian camels for Senegalese grass. Thus when two Senegalese peasants were shot near the village of Diawara last week the incident seemed unremarkable. But, fanned by the Senegalese media, the deaths ignited long-smoldering ethnic and social tensions between the black Senegalese and the Mauritanian Moors. More than 200 died when civilians from both countries attacked one another in border towns as well as in Senegal's capital, Dakar, and in Mauritania's two major cities. Each country used its army to restore order...