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...such safeguard. Some argue that the judiciary does not provide an adequate check on the surveillance state due to the politicization of judges. It would be risible to suggest that any judicial system is apolitical, but it is insulting to categorically impugn the judicial temperament of the many sober men and women on the bench who have made it their life’s work to interpret the complex issues of American constitutional law. Citing the politicization of the judiciary to delegitimize its judgments on one issue delegitimizes our entire judicial system, since it calls into question the fitness...
...have talked to countless people on campus that can’t remember the last time they had sober sex; would that count as an alter ego? A liquored-up, sexy alter ego? Then there are the people, myself included, who seem to acknowledge everyone they remotely recognize as a dear close friend on Fridays and Saturdays after 10 p.m., only to see them in the dining hall on Sunday and think it would be silly to say hello, since “we’re not even friends really.” Would that count as a drunk/high...
...maybe we should all start embracing this side of ourselves, rather than passing it off on someone else—an alter ego or just an inebriated self that does things our sober persons would never do. Perhaps everyone else has come to terms with this, and I’m just the last one holding on, too terrified to take the blame...
...Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, takes a more sober view of the findings, pointing out that 18 of the 26 studies in Noble's review failed to mention addiction. The review authors say they assumed the omissions meant that those studies did not find any cases of addiction, but Volkow says it could mean that they simply didn't look for it. (See pictures from an X-ray studio...
...event featured three of Harvard’s dance groups: Harvard Ballroom, Harvard Breakers, and Expressions. Representatives from each taught attendees how to get down and dirty (the sober, non-messy...