Word: blows
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...himself), but unlike many of today's celebrity recoverers, Williams has not succumbed to just-say-no zealotry. While he knows cocaine is "a totally selfish drug" and a dead end, he's also unafraid to recall the fun. "It was always around. 'Robin, want to do some blow? Want to do some blow in a back room with some very famous people?' 'Oh, yeah...
...small cash prizes and the much richer reward of having their work heard by an enthusiastic public. The poetic abilities of many contestants may be open to debate, but the audience is always in top form. On a typical evening a rambling poem about using nuclear weapons to blow up political banquets brings raucous cheers. A watery ode to existentialism ("Nothing that is worth having actually is . . .") draws equally good-natured jeers...
...terrorists were released from prison in Kuwait, eliminating one of the Hizballah factions' principal demands. Then Assad weighed the odds and joined Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the international coalition arrayed against his archenemy Saddam Hussein. When Iraq's army was destroyed, Arab extremism and rejectionism suffered a devastating blow. The U.S. emerged as the only superpower with influence in the region and was actively trying to restart the Middle East peace process...
...chanted approximately 650,000 voices in Puerto Rico last Sunday, drowning out the aphonic sounds of the "Si" supporters to close a sorry chapter of our island's history. By opposing amendments to the Puerto Rican constitution, statehooders and their supporters dealt a severe blow to advocates for Puerto Rico's political rights and national identity, defeating them by a seven percent margin...
President Rudenstine could strike an immensely valuable blow for freedom in South Africa by announcing, even at this late date, that Harvard will forthwith divest itself of all holdings in companies doing business in South Africa, and will not reinvest until a genuinely democratic government has been installed. Robert Paul Wolff Professor of Philosophy University of Massachusetts Former Executive Director of HRAAA