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...other parents can't undermine her decision with impunity. "Despite what they think, parents often can't control what goes on in their home once kids start drinking," she says. "If teens drink, they usually drink to excess. And you can ask for their keys, but they have a spare or give you a key that isn't even to their car." Ellison speaks from painful experience. In 2002, a local parent supervised a tent party at which kids supposedly surrendered their keys. Nevertheless, several of them left the home at 3 a.m. and drove to the apartment where Ellison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Must Be Over 21 to Drink in This Living Room | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...Spare as his poems are on the page, their large-heartedness is everywhere apparent,” said Stephen R. Williams ’06, noting the great respect and care he has for Creeley...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: In Memoriam | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

Three batters later and with runners at first and second, Brown again got the better of O’Dea, ripping his fastball to straight-away center, but, as before, Potvin retreated and, with little time to spare, hauled in the line drive to thwart yet another of Harvard’s chances...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Dealt Heartbreak at Home | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

...Spare as his poems are on the page, their large-heartedness is everywhere apparent,” said Stephen R. Williams ’06, noting the great respect and care he has for Creeley...

Author: By Andrew R. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poet Creeley Dies at 78 | 4/5/2005 | See Source »

DIED. ROBERT CREELEY, 78, among the most influential American poets of the past half-century and the 1999 winner of the Bollingen Prize, poetry's top honor; of pneumonia; in Odessa, Texas. Rejecting the strict metric schemes of the academics, Creeley captured emotions with a spare, conversational style that assumed an intimacy with readers. In A Wicker Basket, he wrote, "There are very huge stars, man, in the sky/ and from somewhere very far off someone hands me a slice of apple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 11, 2005 | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

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