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Increased enforcement of alcohol restrictions at this year’s Harvard-Yale game will likely make it tougher than ever for students to imbibe at the traditional pre-game tailgates...
...that 61% are dissatisfied with him, and only 32% trust him to tell the truth. Old allies have abandoned him; rivals leak venomously to bring him down. Both, of course, are Tony Blair, who won huge majorities for Labour in 1997 and 2001. This time he'll have a tougher race, which informally kicks off at the Labour conference this week. The mother of all his troubles is Iraq. Bigley's misery (as Time went to press, his fate was unknown) showed how easy it will be for terrorists in coming months to mock Blair's insistence that Iraq...
...large, looming expenditures—massive expansion across the Charles River and the high cost of the once-in-a-generation Harvard College Curricular Review now underway. The former will require a brand-new campus in Allston, the latter a much expanded Faculty. So consistently large payouts now are tougher than the size of the endowment might suggest...
Nevertheless, despite Harvard’s dominance, one game does not provide enough evidence to judge the Crimson’s potential effectiveness against tougher opponents such as Yale and Penn—as tempting as it might be to leap to that conclusion...
...from 7,242 to 5,731. The main reason: a big drop in speeding. Since the first quarter of 2002, the number of motorists exceeding the limit by at least 10 km/h has fallen by 15%. What convinced a nation known for intemperate driving to slow down? Tougher policing, stiffer fines and a hard-hitting publicity campaign. More than 100 speed radars have been installed around the country since last fall (1,000 are to be in place by the end of 2005). The government also funded a series of chilling anti-speeding commercials aired last year - including radio spots...