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...incident has sparked fear among students, who cite the Currier drug bust as only one in a string of crackdowns on illicit alcohol and drug use on campus this year...
Even though, as Lisa Muggridge '96 points out, "Anyone who thinks [drug use] doesn't exist is blind," the bust served to seal the class's "infamous" reputation...
...wide was the reach of The Bust, as it immediately was known, that it brought the normally fractious Harvard community into rare unity. A Soldiers' Field rally of 11,000 students and faculty produced a strike. Classes turned into floating picnics; strike T-shirts and arm bands entered the realm of high fashion; and nightly political meetings of Politburo duration became the after-dinner activity of choice. For some, there might be dancing 'til dawn, with drugs and sex in abundance. Harvard now had far more pressing things to do than police its students' bodies...
...arguments and promised to reinstate a tax break for failing companies that had been removed last year under pressure from the IMF. "These people are trying to hide their profits and dodge taxes," Panskov pleaded in the open session. "They are telling us fairy tales. This move will bust the budget of the entire country." To which Yeltsin replied, "You can see that the government is against this. Now can any of you think of another way out?" When the audience shouted "No!", Yeltsin turned to Panskov and said proudly, "Before the election, let's submit a decree...
...Julia Roberts and lizard-visaged country singer Lyle Lovett. Yet when they wed after a month-long, blinders-on courtship in 1993, Lovett's admirers were the ones to ask, What does he see in her? Wasn't he the more courtly, substantial, vulnerable of the two? After their bust-up 21 months later, the uncouple remained tantalizingly mum. But Lovett, a caustic songwriter, could be expected to have the last words...