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...that sort of thing. Last fall, Georgetown University banned beer pong, specially made beer-pong tables and inordinate numbers of Ping-Pong balls and any other alcohol-related paraphernalia in its on-campus dorms - even in the rooms of students of legal drinking age. The University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Tufts University have also banned drinking games. "We're pleased that Tufts has put this in writing," says Michelle Bowdler, a health administrator at the school. "Although we understand that 21 is the legal drinking age, we don't want our students participating...
...Jersey and an 85-year-old Montana lawyer with eyebrows like hamsters who still counts as a rookie since he's yet to win office after 15 tries. Among the Democratic youngsters, there's a former Republican Iraq-war vet in Minnesota, a former ranch hand and Yale Ph.D. in Nebraska and Dennis Shulman, a blind rabbi who easily won the Democratic nomination for the Fifth District in New Jersey. "We keep sending career politicians to Washington, and what do we have to show for it? A big mess," Shulman says. "It may very well take a blind...
Harvard joins other universities including Princeton, Yale, and MIT, who have long since adopted this or similar systems. Harvard's, a recent iteration of this technology, will support both proximity and the older swipe access cards and will also contain a second black stripe intended for use in future software upgrades...
...sermon he gave in the summer of 1943. So certain is his daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, of its provenance, that she put out a book in 2003 about its connections with her father's views on peace and war. But the Times reports that an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine by a law librarian and quotation expert there will present his discovery of versions of the prayer unattributed to Niehbuhr from as early...
...first question seems not immediately answerable. Sifton, Niehbuhr's daughter, says that her father preached around the country in the 1930s and could have introduced the prayer in his travels, prior to '43. The Yale Alumni article's writer, Fred Shapiro, told the Times he felt Niebuhr might have unconsciously lifted it. Quizzed on its origins in his lifetime, the theologian said, " "Of course, it may have been spooking around for years, even centuries, but I don't think so. I honestly do believe I wrote it myself." You decide...