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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amid the cries of outrage, the threats of revenge and half-hearted attempts at racial reconciliation, this summer may also have seen incidents that will cause the current wave of racial tensions to buckle under the weight of its own irrationality...
This permissive mind-set colors my instinctive response to current drug problems. The initial breathless media reports of the crack epidemic aroused all my journalistic skepticism, and I groused that the antidrug frenzy seemed like Reefer Madness revisited. On those infrequent occasions when friends and acquaintances still pass around a bootleg joint, my reaction remains benign tolerance. Just a few weeks ago, when marijuana made a furtive appearance at my wife's 20th high school reunion in upstate New York, I viewed this throwback gesture as a quaint affectation, almost as if the class of '69 had all shown...
...list, alas, is long. Begin with public officials who have exploited the issue for 20 years, advocating phony feel-good nostrums like the current fad for drug testing in the workplace, as if mid-level bureaucrats were society's prime offenders. Joining the politicians in the dock are those antidrug crusaders who have either squandered credibility with exaggerated scare talk or strained credulity with prissy pronouncements. The media are culpable as well, for sensationalized coverage that has often served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between...
Although the goal has not yet been finalized, sources say that it will exceed the $1.1 billion stash Stanford hopes to net as part of its current five-year drive. Some inside observers have placed the Harvard figure at as high as $2 billion...
...current dispute, officials from those schools have generally come out against a Harvard-wide drive, according to sources...