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...Morales and the growers would have it--an entirely innocuous affair. Even though the cocaleros don't turn coca leaves into cocaine--that's done by the drug cartels--they know that the bulk of the crop goes not toward its traditional uses as an anesthetic and a salubrious chew but into making the illegal drug. In a recent speech on Morales' home turf, Ambassador Rocha blasted the "lie that coca cultivation is an innocent endeavor to the world." The cocaleros' probity is debatable, but while Morales is chewing up Bolivian politics, their clout is unquestionable...
...they’d love to solve without international interference, and for obvious reasons). And until a solution is found, if at all, people will continue with their daily routines—teenagers will watch Bend it Like Beckham alongside Star Wars, sipping on milkshakes and lassis; adults will chew paan (betel nut) and continue to procrastinate at work; everyone will perspire in the soaring heat and curse the government; and everyone will enjoy a good laugh at the expense of George “Dubya” Bush...
...episodes. (Later this month Showtime adds Street Time, an earnest but somewhat tone-deaf series about parolees and parole officers.) Creator David Simon says The Wire is "not a cop show" but a series about how the drug trade and the war against it have become institutions that chew up and spit out the people who work in them...
...people thought, ‘Who is this Gonzales guy? He’s going to come to Washington and Washington will chew him up,’” Charles Cooper, an assistant attorney general under President Reagan, told USA Today. “But he has done a great job...with Bush’s very conservative outlook...
First, determine how many of those 9,000 minutes are peak ("anytime") and how many are off-peak (usually nights and weekends). A plan with 8,700 off-peak minutes but only 300 peak is no bargain. Even long-winded midnight gabbers rarely chew up more than 3,000 off-peak minutes. And for most people, 300 peak minutes is the bare minimum...