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...article in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). The difficulty for college officials, who must be careful not to give the appearance of condoning violations of the law, is to enact realistic policies. For many schools, it means encouraging abstinence for students under 21, many of whom drink regardless of legal restrictions...
...Regardless, Morrisroe has created a memorable portrait. She knows her subject well, though in the end, it was Mapplethorpe who may have been his own best critic. In a chilly bit of self analysis, a passage that comes closest to untying what Morrisroe calls the "Gordian knot" entwining art and sexuality. Mapplethorpe says: "When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera I forget I exist...
...Regardless of whether it makes good fiscal sense, some tax cuts are sure to be included in any deal between Clinton and the G.O.P. It is just as certain that both sides will compromise. Clinton has already given way to the Republicans repeatedly, agreeing to balance the budget on their seven-year schedule and to accept the economic projections of the Congressional Budget Office that the Republicans favor. And Republicans have been indicating that much of the tax package may be jettisoned for now, to be taken up again next year. If a deal is struck, the remaining question...
...they have discovered common ground in tort reform, and are working hard for three initiatives that have already qualified for California's March primary ballot. Proposition 200 would establish a "no-fault" auto-insurance system in which insurers pay benefits regardless of who causes an accident. Proposition 201 would discourage shareholder lawsuits by requiring unsuccessful litigants to pay the corporation's legal fees. And Proposition 202 would sharply limit lawyers' contingency fees in personal-injury cases that are settled within 60 days. The initiatives will be voted on separately, but their backers, in order to create a wider base...
...REGARDLESS OF THE SHORTCOMINGS OF the CWA, I place most of the blame for Elisa's death on people in the neighborhood who knew this family. Awilda Lopez, a brutish beast of a woman who unmercifully abused Elisa and beat her to death, could not have got away with this if someone had stopped by to question and report her as many times as was necessary to get the child away from her mother. We are all our brothers' and sisters' keepers. We cannot wait for someone else to do the right thing. If we see something that is wrong...