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...make matters worse, as the crack epidemic began in the 1980s, harried cops had no time to construct elaborate criminal profiles. Simple ones would suffice. In 1983 the Illinois state police began targeting cocaine couriers in and around Chicago. Going after low-level couriers is a shockingly inefficient way to fight drugs, but coke was spreading around the city quickly, and politicians demanded action. Most of the couriers the state police initially caught were young Hispanic men who, when questioned during traffic stops, didn't have a good answer about where they were going...
...Each vignette has high entertainment value, if not a lot of introspection. One story tells of his "month-long foray into the bewitching milieu of smoking crack cocaine." With a bit of work examining his motivations and feelings he could have built this out to fill the whole book, and made a fascinating read. Instead he keeps it to six admittedly very amusing pages that culminate in a violent battle over who would get to eat some crack residue...
...this production, Matt Johnson ’01-’02, one of Harvard’s most talented took his crack at the role and, by any reasonable standard, did a terrific job with a demanding part. On stage through much of the show, interacting with every character and audience member, Johnson’s Pseudolus was thoroughly enjoyable. He absolutely owned the stage during his physical bits, and his interactions with Hysterium were priceless, especially the already lauded reprise of “Lovely...
Perhaps the worst part of this quandary for Bush is that even after he makes his tough decision, the issue won't go away. Congress will take a crack at it, and court challenges are under way. Private researchers like those in Virginia and Massachusetts will continue to study stem cells regardless of what Bush does, since they don't receive government funding. (Congress could decide to regulate all stem-cell research, public and private, which would face Bush with another hard choice...
...Kawaii, an adjective usually mistranslated as simply "cute," has become much more than a word. It is a state of mind for Japanese teens, a modifier that means cool, bitchin', groovy, killer and I-love-it all rolled into one, then squared. For a clothing label trying to crack Asia's burgeoning teen fashion industry, business these days boils down to the quest for kawaii. Asian teenagers tend to wear today what Japanese teens wore a few minutes ago. And unlike the fashion industrial complex in the West, in which top designers and magazine editors dictate what's hot, Japan...