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...minute black-and-white videotape played at the trial of Marion Barry. It showed the three-term mayor of the nation's capital rolling around on a bed in a downtown hotel room with a former girlfriend who had invited him there, inhaling twice from a pipe filled ; with crack cocaine and, finally, handcuffed and surrounded by police and FBI agents, muttering over and over, "Goddam, I shouldn't have come up here . . . that bitch...
...John Amos definitely should not have been cast as a no-nonsense major in a crack army anti-terrorist unit. He's just too goofy-looking to play any role considered to be even remotely dangerous. He looked more realistic pushing imitation MacDonald's hamburgers in Eddie Murphy's brilliant Coming to America...
...when some insolent vassal dares challenge the sovereignty of America's premier university--as did the U.S. Justice Department last summer when it launched an investigation of Harvard's admission and financial aid practices--Steiner and his team of crack lawyers are the ones delegated to put them in their place...
...heterosexual population. More and more women are getting AIDS, mostly because they either inject drugs themselves or have sex with infected men. But the problem is not limited to the households of heroin addicts. AIDS is increasingly common among abusers of drugs that are not injected, such as crack cocaine and alcohol. These people tend to be sexually uninhibited and promiscuous, which increases their risk of picking up the AIDS virus. Last year about 5% of the new AIDS cases resulted from heterosexual contact, compared with...
...problems are most acute, in fact, when both parties think they're speaking the same language: Shaw's famous crack about England and America being "two countries separated by the same language" is 30 times as true now that up to 60 countries claim English as their mother -- or at least stepmother -- tongue. An Australian will invite you to a hotel, and you may be shocked if you don't know that it's what you think of as a bar. An Indian will "prepone" a meeting, and only if you're quick enough to calculate "postpone" in reverse have...