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...power hitting Red Sox first baseman and active community leader, was acquitted last week of drunken driving, a charge brought when he crashed his pick-up truck into an abandoned car a foggy early morning in January. Vaughn was within his rights to refuse to take a breathalyzer test that night (planning wisely for the court appearance to follow), and, given the venue of his night out (a Rhode Island strip joint), he did well to apologize to his legions of fans in newspaper advertisements. Luckily, neither Vaughn nor anyone else was physically hurt. But things get a little hazy...
VanDerveer has endured every coach's nightmare throughout the past week. On Saturday, during her team's final regular season game against Oregon Sate, Nygaard, a fifth-year senior, went down in a heap and a subsequent MRI test revealed a ruptured...
Please don't mistake me; I'm not attempting to paint a warm and fuzzy picture of prisoners. Some of them are manipulative and test the boundaries of the tutor-tutee relationship every week. Some tell stories just to appease the ears of tutors. After months without contact with women, some tutees make inappropriate comments to female tutors. Some lack the motivation to progress through lessons or continually forget to complete assignments. Yet the structure of the Harvard tutoring program grants individual tutors autonomy over their curriculum and allows them to ask for a new tutee, if the situation becomes...
...voted, gone to R-rated movies without having to sneak in, passed a driver's test and assumed all of the responsibilities and privileges that come with graduation from minorhood. But you can't drink (legally) or rent cars from Avis...
Abortion. It is, without question, the most emotional issue of politics and morality that faces the nation today. The language of the debate is so passionate and polemical, and the conflicting, irreconcilable values so deeply felt, that the issue could well test the foundations of a pluralistic system designed to accommodate deep-rooted moral differences. Says Philadelphia Surgeon Dr. Everett Koop, an antiabortion activist whom Reagan plans to nominate as Surgeon General: "Nothing like it has separated our society since the days of slavery." On one side are the crusaders "for life," who argue on religious and moral grounds that...