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...children weren't taking cocaine, so everything was fine." Many residents welcomed the money that drugs brought to the city and the jobs they created, however temporarily, in the construction and retail businesses. The old estates on the surrounding hills of El Poblado were replaced by luxurious red-brick apartment buildings topped with satellite dishes to enable tenants to watch Miami Vice and other U.S. programs. Shopping malls proliferated, and land values soared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia the Most Dangerous City | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...this happens in about the first 10 minutes, and then it's off on the yellow brick road, in this case the New York Thruway, to search for Elmore. It's here that, according to the press kit, "the realities and illusions of the open road confront Julius with his own fears, with who he is, as opposed to who he thinks he is, with losing himself in order to find himself..." and so on and so forth. But believe me, it isn't nearly that exciting...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Candy Molehill | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

...bumper and push them down the street at breakneck speed, and to turn normally healthy young Harvard students into quivering lumps of processed vegetable matter. At the same time I wanted to force all Honda drivers into trees and make garbage trucks do triple Louganis spins into brick walls. My plan would accomplish all this, and more...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Brain Strains and Automobiles | 2/25/1988 | See Source »

...been on campus, institutional barriers have done their best to curb my social life. Part of the problem stems from Harvard's abysmal party scene and part stems from missing freshman year--the year-long mixer in the Yard. Transfer students are more likely to run into a brick wall than open-door party in search of a social life...

Author: By David Sugrue, | Title: The Dull Edge | 2/25/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard men's wrestling team, thrust onto the yellow-brick road of an Ivy League schedule, is indeed finding resistance from various Lions, Tigers, and bears...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, | Title: Grapplers Prove Un-Wizardly | 2/20/1988 | See Source »

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