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...academic drive of Harvard students--one of the main reasons undergraduates choose to limit their drinking--makes them more sensitive to the raucous, disruptive behavior of others...
When the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted two weeks ago to lift the eight-year term limit on the speaker's term, there were many justified cries of outrage. Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who would have been forced to surrender his immensely powerful position in 2004 under the old rules, ostensibly excused himself from the vote and claims he did not pressure lawmakers on the issue. But he was undoubtedly watching each member's vote with keen interest. Indeed, shortly after the vote, loyal lieutenants were given choice committee assignments and leadership roles, while opponents were exiled to backwater posts...
...provide adequate sanctions (anything from taking away a car to imposing a jail term) for noncompliance. "We need the hammer of sanctions, not necessarily jail time, over users' heads to urge compliance," she says. "If you take away the judge's ability to make this user accountable, you limit the help the court the can give them." There is a solution, says Weinstein, but it requires compromise. "Just throwing money into treatment doesn't do it - there needs to be money for sanctions and drug tests as well...
...Citing alcohol's negative effect on health as the top reason to limit drinking, Harvard students seem particularly concerned with maintaining their own well-being...
...Pakistani public, often via open demonstrations in Pakistani cities of militants working out, scaling walls and showing other martial tricks. Generous donors are invited to visit the not-so-secret camps to see how their money is spent.) Phase two is designed to push each volunteer to his physical limit and cull the weak from the strong. In the final weeks, recruits use live ammunition, construct actual explosives and perfect ambush techniques. The final exam lasts three days. A group of trainees, sometimes as large as 100 individuals, hikes and climbs through high-altitude, wooded terrain for three days without...