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...Walters is on record as being very critical of Clinton?s drug policies because they focused on cocaine and crack addicts (who tend to be hard-core, more violent offenders) rather than middle class recreational drug users. John believes it?s critical to emphasize and focus on all types of illegal drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Bush's Pick for Drug Czar Affect U.S. Policy? | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

...past supported the disparity in sentencing between crack and cocaine, which critics called racially motivated, because he believed crack has more potential to harm an entire community via violence. Now, however, he will accept the idea of making the sentences equal. Possibly by making sentences for user lighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Bush's Pick for Drug Czar Affect U.S. Policy? | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

...Smuggling has gotten more dicey recently, and Zheng has quit his trade. China is trying to crack down on corruption: the former head of Shenzhen's customs, Zhao Yucun, faces the death penalty for taking $1.2 million in bribes. At the same time, triads are muscling out independent operators all over the place. Working both sides of the border, gangs own perhaps half the nightclubs and bars in Shenzhen, often reportedly in partnership with officers of the People's Liberation Army and the Public Security Bureau. They are into everything that pays: car theft, gambling, prostitution, kidnap for ransom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossing The Line | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...Does the idea of drinking graham cracker milk gruel make you laugh or feel ill or both? What about accidentally crushing a mole's skull under your heel and hearing it crack and then putting its severed paw into water, like an avocado pit? Or watching someone shoot staples into their eyeballs for beauty? Or eviscerating a small-horse-like thing and discovering embryos? Your answers will go a long way in determining how you will take to this book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Disturbing Artist You've Never Heard Of | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...having been handed a secret to crack, you go all Woodward and Bernstein on the PR rep. How big is it, you ask, on a scale of one to ten, with one being the horrifyingly awful hockey-puck mouse and ten being the original Macintosh? Between five and seven, they say. Just enough to keep you interested; not enough to overplay their hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Seven Veils of Steve Jobs | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

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