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...barely knew in June 1990 and was told she could keep the change if she posted a package for him, she readily agreed. For her effort, Drake received $47.70 and assumed that would be the end of it. But unknown to Drake, the package contained 232 grams of crack cocaine. Although she had neither a prior criminal record nor any history of drug use, the judge was forced under federal mandatory- sentencing guidelines to impose a 10-year prison term. At the sentencing, District Judge Richard Gadbois Jr. lamented, "That's just crazy, but there's nothing...
Harvard is a mysterious place, full of metaphorical nuts to crack and teeming with challenges for the gaming mind. Our perch atop the chimney of Memorial Church affords us fine view of curious students traversing the Yard, wondering, always wondering: When is a Yard not a Yard? and, Whence Schlesinger Library?, and so on. In the interest of putting churning young minds to rest once and for all, we have taken it upon ourselves to respond to some oft-asked questions about Mother Harvard...
Anyone who feels that seeing jazz live isn't much different from slapping a new CD into astereo should go check out a show, any show, at any club. After watching Ahmad Jamal finally crack a smile, after hearing spit hit the floor as Tiger Okoshi cleans out his trumpet, after watching Don Byron prance maniacally around stage, even the most diehard homebodies will admit that there is nothing like seeing music unfold before their eyes...
...leaving her apartment in the Northridge Meadows complex in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley and making sure her mother is all right. As Stillman crosses her bedroom, she thinks, this must have been a big one. Nearly everything in the apartment is on the floor. Then she hears a crack, and her dining area seems to list to the left and downward. "I felt a sensation of falling," she reports later. She is falling -- 10 ft. -- and so is her apartment. And the building's entire second and third floors. "But until I actually saw what was on the outside...
...numbers move on a daily basis. Clinton's improved grade for foreign policy rests partly upon a European trip marked by still-to- be-honored pledges by Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons and by Boris Yeltsin to continue reform. A face-off with North Korea or a crack-up in Russia could renew doubts about his capabilities abroad...