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...with drug profits. Prosecutors must go through a distinct and scrupulous legal process to prove that the gains were specifically illgotten. Says Miami U.S. Attorney Stanley Marcus: "It takes a lot?I mean a lot?to convince a federal judge that $10 million in someone's personal bank account should be taken away from him." Nonetheless, the DEA and other federal agencies last year managed to seize about $100 million in cash, $40 million worth of aircraft, boats and cars, and $20 million in real estate. Local police also seem to get a special kick from seeing cocaine merchants stripped...
...whom I considered to be clods." Luminaries like then-Senator John F. Kennedy '40, then-Secretary of State Neil H. McElroy '25, Robert Frost, who attended Harvard from 1897 to 1879. Leonard Bernstein '37, John P. Marquand '15, and Alan Jay Lerner '40 appeared on the show, giving the distinct impression that if you go to Harvard, you're sure...
Using the wind to a distinct advantage, the sailors raced to an impressive victory on the Charles, taking first place by 13 points. Tufts finished second while Boston University took third...
...greater challenge involves changing a basic tenet of the U.S. auto industry that was laid down in 1921 by Alfred P. Sloan, creator of the modern GM: produce a separate and distinct automobile for every price category. Since Chrysler can no longer afford the $1 billion it costs to build an entirely new model, it will eventually have to use its basic model, the K-car, as the building block for each of its four car sizes: subcompact, compact, intermediate and full size. Thus buyers have to be re-educated not to mind that their luxurious Chrysler may have started...
...infuse the language we speak with new beauty. He will crash through a line with many poly syllabics--exciting combinations of consonants and internal rhyming--and then suddenly hit a resounding, one-syllabic word with a long vowel. Such techniques allow him to reemphasize the language of poetry, as distinct from prose, without seeming artificial. The elegance of Williamson's tone lends him the dramatic, questioning role of the nineteenth-century German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in "Leaving for Islands...