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...coating, then snorted or injected, generating a high as intoxicating as that of heroin. So popular and addictive is OxyContin these days that it has stirred up a blizzard of a crime wave through the towns of Calais and Bangor, say drug counselors and police investigators. People are using bogus prescriptions to obtain the drug, or they are smuggling the pills across the nearby Canadian border. "Three months ago, we had needles show up outside the middle school," says local drug counselor Carrie McDonald...
...bordering on the arcane, at least for this idiot - also showed that some of the arguments in favor of broadcasting the court's sessions are probably exaggerated. In particular, the idea that the raw video would truly educate the viewing public more than legal analysts do seems a bit bogus, what with all this abstruse section 2 and section 5 and section 15 business. More likely, we laymen will focus on who gets off the best zingers - our armchair analysis determined by our pre-existing beliefs - then let Rush or Chris Matthews spin it for us as usual...
...What's political, he doesn't" is how one friend puts it. He still complains that as the newly elected President, he didn't get a single Republican vote for his first budget back in 1993, and he regularly rails against Whitewater and other investigations into his Administration as "bogus" and fraudulent. Earlier this year he declared, "A whole bunch of this stuff was just garbage, and we had totally innocent people prosecuted." Indeed, apart from confronting the 1995-96 government shutdowns, he believes surviving impeachment will be seen as his greatest achievement...
Unlike most sops to American electoral populism, this one is actually a pretty good idea. Sure, the idea that this was anything like an unfiltered vox populi was bogus. Sure, the questions were no doubt thoroughly vetted before airing. (And why? Would it have killed us to have somebody ask George W. Bush if he snorted coke off a stripper's naked belly, or ask Al Gore if he shot Vincent Foster?) And sure, the questions, coming from "undecided" voters, by their nature represented a sector of the populace that hasn't paid enough attention in a year...
...find. Lebed may have got away with his schemes for a year, but others have been identified within days. In the Emulex case in August, Jakob was targeted within hours of his phony press release. Hoke, an employee at PairGain Technologies, was nabbed just a week after his bogus release declared that PairGain was about to be bought...