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...Varsity Club, a not-for-profit organization that is over 120 years old, serves as the primary fundraising liason for Harvard's 41 Division I varsity sports, compiling regular "Friends of" newsletters, organizing fundraising events, and processing gifts made to athletic programs...
...Vicky embodies the shift in the priorities of young Chinese. She's a purposeful, 29-year-old actuary who rarely smiles but loves nothing better than a party. She and her friends meet so regularly for dinner and at bars that she says she never eats at home anymore. As the pictures on her blog attest, they also throw regular theme parties to mark holidays like Halloween and Christmas, and last year took a holiday to Egypt...
...accused the mutaween of making unwarranted arrests, forcing entry into private homes, damaging personal property such as computers and mobile phones, beating and humiliating suspects, and compelling confessions. Two months later, the Interior Ministry warned the commission against violating regulations that require mutaween to immediately hand over to the regular Saudi police anyone accused of morals offenses...
...immunity of tokers, there is statistical evidence to support his contentions about how commonplace the habit now is. According to a new study by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addiction, this nation of 60 million now includes 4 million cannabis smokers, 1.2 million of whom identify themselves as "regular" inhalers (10 times or more per month), while a further 550,000 are daily users. And a whopping 12.4 million are believed to have occasionally experimented with the drug. French cannabis consumption cuts across virtually all socio-economic categories and locales, according to the study, and ranks France...
...people, who by developing the habit earlier will find kicking it harder to do. The French study found that nearly 50% of 17-year-olds reported having smoked dope at least once in their lives; nearly one third admitted having done so in the preceding month, and 16% cited regular or daily use. Average age for first use, meanwhile, is just over 15 years. Legislators fear that legalizing a substance already popular among young people will carry a heavy future price tag, as other freely traded drugs have had. Though annual social costs linked to cannabis are currently estimated...