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Exotics. Legalization could lead to the sale of synthetic drugs or derivatives like crack without any understanding of their effects...
...Moscow summit. Instead he talked almost entirely about drugs. The President attempted to drain some political emotion from the subject by calling for a bipartisan commission to study what could be done (ignoring the fact that antidrug programs already enjoy wide bipartisan support in Congress). Bush, meanwhile, toured a crack den in Los Angeles that had been closed by police raids and tried to sound tougher on drugs than anybody else -- including his chief...
...pushers who spread the very plague the drug laws are supposed to combat. Says Milton Friedman, guru of free-market economists and a Nobel prizewinner: "The harm that is done by drugs is predominantly caused by the fact that they are illegal. You would not have had the crack epidemic if it was legal." Finally, addicts too are irresistibly driven to crime -- prostitution, mugging, burglary -- to finance their habits...
...wish for a competitive men's basketball team on occasion, or a football squad to crack the top-20, we should at the same time realize that for Harvard to be competitive in those sports would require the school to hand out scholarships and significantly lower its admissions standards. Top academic schools like Duke and Stanford have chosen to do that, but I firmly believe that Harvard should...
SCHEIM argues that in the first two years of his administration, Kennedy roused the ire of the Mob for authorizing his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to crack down harshly on organized crime. In addition, the Mafia was enraged at the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, which left Fidel Castro free to shut down Mob-run businesses in Cuba. Ordinarily, Scheim writes, the Mafia would not dare put out a contract on a president, but Kennedy had "slept with" the Mob, using his Mafia connections to meet Judith Campbell, who engaged in affairs simultaneously with the president...