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...MOST boring period in all of history: the Victorian Era. A time of chastity, of temperence, and of virtue. Of staid manners and reverence for the Queen. Nothing if not dull...
Students at the normally-staid Pennsylvania campus have reacted with a pumpkin-sized yawn. "Nobody's really angry," said senior Anthony R. Ibrahim. "It hasn't been that much of an issue...
...watch the good times come and go and still have the strength to get up and do it again and again--ad nauseum. It seems even more relevent to the Eighties, when overexposure is the great social malady and the cycles are more meteoric, than it does to relatively staid World...
...Drugs" is now a regular feature on the nightly news and the front pages. CRACK USERS' BABIES CROWDING HOSPITAL NURSERIES, blares a headline in the normally staid New York Times. The networks air two prime-time specials in a week: CBS Anchorman Dan Rather can be seen tagging along on the police bust of a crack house in New York City; NBC's Tom Brokaw earnestly questions addicts about the evils of dope. The war on drugs, like the war in Viet Nam, has been brought home to the nation's living rooms...
...perhaps a singular irony, then, that such a staid and quintessentially Harvard family also has a long tradition of placing its reputation on the line to support some unpopular points of view. And sometimes the maverick stands have put family members at odds with each other...