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...even allowed on campus, except in a few residences for older students. And the school had been trying harder than ever to enforce the rules since the alcohol-related deaths of a sophomore in 1998 and a freshman three years later. Since January 2001, six fraternities have been thrown off campus for alcohol violations. The number of underage students busted for boozing has more than quadrupled since 1998. The school even launched a controversial policy in 1999 to notify parents when students are arrested or hospitalized as a result of drinking...
Nouman's life settled into a pattern. She would be arrested, thrown into prison for a few months of torture, then forced to spend a month in the mental hospital. She would be released for a few months, and then the cycle would begin again. Looking back, she has difficulty remembering the chronology and duration of her incarcerations. "There were too many," she says, "and after all those years of taking drugs at the hospital of madness, my memory is mixed up." But if the repeated punishment was meant to silence Nouman, it had the opposite effect. "When I realized...
...just want to keep the story moving. I try to take the air out, just like in our movies." All three of his shows start at point A and end, completely resolved an hour later, at point B. "The pitch for Without a Trace was a magazine thrown on my desk with the headline WHERE IS CHANDRA LEVY?" says Warner Bros. Television president Peter Roth about the missing-persons show. "The one-line pitch was 'Whoever finds her.' I thought, Absolutely, yes, yes, yes." CSI, a forensics-lab cop show, was inspired by Barry Scheck's testimony...
...Rawlsian vote. Until late March, next year’s first-years will inhabit Harvard behind a veil of ignorance, unaware of either their endowments as privileged Adamsians or their impending exile to the Quad. Balancing overcrowding fears with the threat of being in the crowd that gets unceremoniously thrown out the door, these first-years should vote yea or nay, whether dining hall segregation should be a relic of the past...
...Lance has been a tremendous addition defensively in right field,” senior catcher Brian Lentz says. “He has a great arm and has thrown people out on the bases in big situations...