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...many Americans studying in Britain today, the Victorian penchant for drunken revelry still colors higher education in the U.K. The decision to study abroad often involves a desire to partake in Britain's lively pub culture and take advantage of the lower drinking age of 18. Some also believe that universities in Britain are simply easier than those in the States. It's a common joke among American students that LSE, the initials for the London School of Economics, one of Britain's most esteemed universities, stand for "Let's See Europe," because they think the courses are less rigorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American at Cambridge: Hot Victorian Sex! | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

...people! A Poisson distribution!), but he ends it broken-hearted, broken down, and maniacally pissing on a boardroom table. So next time you see Public Piss Guy letting the John Harvard statue have it, just remember: there’s an idealistic and intelligent freshman hidden somewhere in that drunken mess. (I think—he might also just have to pee.) —Patrick R. Chesnut is an outgoing Arts Chair. He hasn’t wet the boardroom in over a year...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Literary Characters and Their Harvard Caricatures | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...pizzas, Bilotti took a bite of each and then “sauced up” the employee lounge.Luckily, Chiappini had saved Massachusetts’s most-celebrated tradition for last: the dog track. Since election day, dog racing’s days have been numbered. [2] The drunken masses in the Bay State’s voting booths have decided they love marijuana and income taxes more than family entertainment and jobs for dogs. One can only assume the thousands of greyhounds simultaneously unemployed on January 1, 2010 will turn their focus from running races to running drugs.We followed...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Turkeys & Trifectas | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...have failed to defend traditional values; they got two conservative Justices on the Supreme Court, passed all kinds of laws restricting abortion and stem-cell research and practically shut down the government to try to save Terri Schiavo. And while it is true that Republicans spent taxpayer dollars like drunken sailors when they controlled all three branches of government - Chambliss was not a notable abstainer - there is little evidence that Americans soured on the GOP because of its profligacy. They don't seem to be crying out for austerity and deregulation. McCain is one of the most principled spending hawks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Really at Stake in Georgia's Senate Runoff | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...Gleno police station, 30 km southwest of Dili, there are signs of progress. While overworked Australian UNPOL officers complain good-naturedly about having to pay $200 out of their own pocket to buy a cell door, an off-duty PNTL task-force officer brings in a drunken man who has been terrorizing local market traders with a machete. Says an admiring UNPOL district commander, Paul Harvey: "There are PNTL officers here I would rather work with than some officers back home." The long-suffering people of East Timor hope his confidence is well founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing the Beat | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

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