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...undergraduates to actually crack the system was the now-legendary Donald Carswell '50. He offered some advice to fellow exam-takers in his article, "Beating the System," for which he won the Dana Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing. The Crimson has been re-running it during exam periods ever since, and in 1962 it was joined for the first time by the infamous "Grader's Reply...
...National Security Agency and the armed forces. Any raid to rescue the hostages would require pinpointing where they are held, but the ability of U.S. intelligence to discover the whereabouts of the hostages is still limited. Terrorist cells are small, often based on family ties, and very hard to crack. The killing of two of the CIA's top Middle East operatives, former hostage William Buckley and Robert Ames, severely crippled what little was left of any U.S. intelligence network in the region...
...them may be using cocaine daily. Those estimates could be low, since the pollsters surveyed only households, not transients or people in hospitals and prisons. Said drug czar William Bennett: "We're now fighting two drug wars": a manageable fight against casual users and a more intense battle against crack addiction. "On this second front," he added grimly, "we are not winning...
Bennett's national antidrug strategy, to be announced formally on Sept. 5, will propose federal grants of $200 million to state and local police agencies for reclaiming crack-infested neighborhoods. Federal law-enforcement efforts would focus on the hubs of the drug-importation and -wholesaling industry: Miami, Los Angeles, New York City, Houston and the U.S.-Mexican border...
Drawing upon U.S. help and experience, local legal activists are turning to the courts to help crack open the complex system of racial discrimination...