Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been two weeks since my last cigarette. If I ever smoke again, it won't be to kill myself or to deal with a "nic fit." It will be to affirm my right to do so in the face of big brother's criticism. It will be to validate a fraternity in which "bumming" a cigarette is acceptable in a way that no non-smoker could understand. (Have you ever bummed a french fry from a passerby...
...says that if corneas are needed, prisoners are shot in the chest; those who are slated to donate kidneys are shot in the head.) Fu also guaranteed that any lungs would come from nonsmokers. After haggling a bit over the price of various organs, the agent wrapped up the deal--and then had Wang and Fu arrested. If convicted, they face maximum sentences of five years in prison and fines...
Tulane first came to the attention of HUD with a proposal it submitted offering to use the resources of the university to help one housing project. What the university got instead, in a deal cut by then HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, was full authority over the housing of 55,000 people--10% of the city's population--in 10 projects. The agreement allowed Tulane senior vice president Ron Mason, the new de facto head of HANO, to undertake a complete reorganization of the agency...
...there are still has some issues to deal with before women's sports can complete the journey from cute to compelling. They'll figure it out. Even Sales, a superb, unselfish athlete, instinctively knows that her basket was empty because in lacking truth, it lacked beauty. "I think it would have been a lot better if I was playing," she says. "I wasn't sure at first. But Coach said it was a gift from him to me." Maybe women's sports don't need gifts from men. After all, the last time a basketball story made the front page...
...have only one mild word of protest. I am not, as you have twice stated in your columns, the original, or part-original, of Larry in Maugham's The Razor's Edge. I can stand a good deal of kidding from my friends, but this rumor has poisoned my life for the past six months, and I wish it would die as quickly as possible. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Santa Monica, Calif...