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...street price of a kilo of Southwest Asian heroin, now about $90,000 in Los Angeles. Yet the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), which annually loses some 3% of its 5,000 agents to attrition, has a two-year hiring freeze because of budget cuts to U.S. programs. DEA bean counters say they would need an additional $12 million to maintain current agent levels. The DEA's overseas funding has increased, but overall, DEA chief financial officer Frank Kalder admits, "there will be less drug enforcement going on. There's no getting around that...
Hwang’s senior policy adviser, R. Kyle Bean ’10 agreed. “Our sleeper cells are moving towards revolutions...
From Scottish Kilts to Camden punk, tartan has long been the fabric of choice when tribute is paid to the Queen. Now designers and retailers as diverse as Alexander McQueen and L.L. Bean are indulging in the traditional textile. Kate Spade's wool boot is boxed out in plaid, as is Estée Lauder's jeweled compact, illustrating the evolution of this onetime preppy look. What was once campus chic is now runway cool. Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati even featured it for spring. But who better than Burberry, epic old English purveyor of plaid, to square...
...Bean Mad Bomber hat ($36, 800-809-7057 or llbean.com...
...schools integrated. The student-assignment policy, which the local school board voted to keep even after a judge lifted a desegregation order in 2000, tries to maintain black student enrollment at each school between 15% and 50%. After 30 years of school integration, or what Gordon calls "the jelly bean approach" of throwing together children of different colors, the school district has still not been able to close the achievement gap between black and white students. Hence Gordon's motto: "Let's try something different...