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...steady at 44%. (Binging was defined as five drinks in a row for boys and four for girls.) In an age in which campus officials are increasingly seen as proxy parents, this is worrying to them. Legal liability is of particular concern, especially after M.I.T. last year chose to avoid a lawsuit by paying out $6 million to the parents of a freshman who in 1997 drank himself to death at a fraternity initiation...
...frothing with betel-nut juice. And the message they delivered to Huang Mei-shu that day last August was almost too horrible to contemplate. "We have your sister," they said. "She stinks. Pay $5,000 if you want her back in one piece." Huang's first instinct was to avoid trouble and fork over the cash. But times were tough for the Taipei slum-dweller, and the most she could rustle up was $500?a sum the kidnappers gruffly rejected. Scared and desperate, she went to the police. They refused to help...
...problems," says Bill Richardson, who was Bill Clinton's Secretary of Energy and is now teaching public policy at Harvard. Meanwhile, utilities may be adding new power plants to the grid at the rate of one a day. Richardson says the boost should enable the Midwest and Northeast to avoid blackouts this summer. And he expects the lights to stay on in New York City, which recently rushed emergency facilities into place...
...They?re afraid of massive judgements against them in court or all of the protections they have to put in place to avoid massive judgments. So all the measures they?ve put in place to streamline medical processes will have to be peeled back and restructured completely. Restructuring, of course, means more regulations and more red tape, which increases the cost of business for HMOs. They?re also worried businesses will drop coverage because they won?t be able to afford the premiums they?ll be forced to raise to keep...
...parties somewhat reluctantly accepting a deal and sure to offer radically different interpretations of its requirements. Its implementation will require an active, thankless and quite possibly even futile refereeing effort on the part of the U.S. - exactly the scenario the Bush administration had hoped to avoid when it came into office vowing not to repeat Bill Clinton's mistakes and insisting that the U.S. could not impose peace when the parties were unwilling. The Middle East is seldom that simple...