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...potentially fatal consequences of inaction, students must feel safe erring on the side of caution, calling whenever they feel a person has had too much to drink. At the margin, when students are weighing whether or not to make the call, fear of disciplinary action should not tip the scales...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: Punishing Drinking Deters Safety | 11/5/2002 | See Source »

...Okichi was a 17-year-old geisha Harris chose after seeing her leave a bathhouse. There are still other versions?Xand it's unclear if the pair were ever actually intimate?Xbut they all have one feature in common: the setting is Shimoda, the sleepy burg at the southeast tip of the Izu Peninsula that housed the first U.S. consulate in Japan and is indelibly associated with the "opening" of the Land of the Rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Barbarians First Landed | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...Irozaki, the final stop on the line, features the "Jungle Park," an excellent showcase of tropical birds and plants with a soundtrack straight out of King Kong. To reach the southernmost tip of the Izu, walk through a torii, or Shinto gate, near the rear exit of the Jungle Park and step down past a little shrine. There you'll look out over jutting rocks as fishing and cargo boats ply the black waters to the south. I was thoroughly enjoying the isolated, out-of-this-world feeling, when I met Naoki Taira, a 25-year-old Tokyoite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Cuts | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s water polo team’s great season ended abruptly after the ball failed to tip the Crimson’s way in one unlucky first-round game...

Author: By Jane V. Evans, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Water Polo Season Ends Abruptly | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

Some defended Kahn’s speech and the service’s political side as natural; Wellstone was a politician, after all, and he cared passionately about standing up for liberal values. And with an important election tomorrow, politics is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. But still, it is disturbing that the mourners could not put partisanship aside for four hours to pay their respects, and to allow others to do the same...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Remembering Wellstone | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

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