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Members say their group defies many of the stereotypes common to both fraternities and final clubs both in terms of its varied social life, strict policies on underage drinking and strong community service program...
...about drinking or hazing," Sarsfield says. "We have a strict policy against underage drinking; it's against the law and our national guidelines...
...then there is the ultimate question of whether to impeach. If last week is any guide, a lot more straight party votes may lie ahead. But proceeding with a matter as important as impeachment by strict party-line votes could be a mistake. "You can't run impeachment as a partisan matter," says University of Rochester political-science professor Richard Fenno. "For either party to ram impeachment through on the basis of a majority would not be a very happy solution for the country in general and for the party that does...
...Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, say the new Islamic bill is likely to increase that tyranny. One interpretation holds that this amendment will anoint Nawaz Sharif as a religious dictator, a supreme arbiter of what is considered good and evil under Islam. Nawaz Sharif, though, contends that only a strict adherence to Shari'a--which relies on the Koran and on the Sunna, a record of the Prophet Muhammad's deeds and sayings--can save Pakistan from "corruption and maladministration...
...some cases, previous attempts to impose fundamentalist law have taken bizarre forms. When a mullah named Maulana Sufi Mohammed decided to enforce strict Shari'a law in his mountain valley near the Afghan border, he prohibited driving on the left side of the road because the left hand is deemed unclean. Numerous car crashes failed to deter him. Inspired by the Taliban's medieval puritanism, mullahs in northwest Pakistan are destroying TVs and setting up roadblocks to stop cars and rip out music cassettes...