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...college students don’t need. As bad as government regulation may be compared to Adam Smith’s invisible hand, buying at the pharmacy is infinitely simpler than on the street. Why should I buy from Steve in Hurlbut when I know CVS has quality assured dope? Perhaps I could have a discount with my CVS card—I know it’s on my keychain for some useful purpose. And embracing the principles of Ec 10 does not mean we have to leave poor Barker Professor of Economics Stephen Marglin and Social Analysis...

Author: By Noah Hertz-bunzl, | Title: Ec 10 and My Multifaceted Life | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...hard out here for a pimp/ When he's gotta get the money for the rent"--don't quite have the lilt of "Some day my prince will come." And the rapper who composed that verse is no Snow White. DJay is a black man, a Memphis, Tenn., dope dealer and peddler of prostitutes' flesh. But his yearning has the same intensity as any Disney heroine's. For DJay has a mission: he wants to make a hit record. He dares to dream the pimpossible dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Came From the South | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...sheer atmosphere of Watts takes a toll. Says Family Counselor Mary Taylor: "Children lose that good feeling about themselves." Ueemaee Russell, 11, who lives on Grape Street (just off "Charcoal Alley," as 103rd Street has been called since it burned), knows that "people are fighting now over dope and getting raped and kidnaped." When gunfire gets too bad near her house, Sixth-Grader Russell deals with it by crawling under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Down but Not Out | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...almost a community effort: residents, wary of the paranoid strangers in town, provided furtive assistance to investigators, taking down auto-license numbers of LaRouche followers and reporting suspicious behavior. LaRouche has "alienated a lot of the local people," said a police officer. "He called two elderly ladies Communists and dope pushers. These are people who are well respected here." Instead of inciting the Kremlin, LaRouche seems to have stirred up his neighbors. --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington and B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Card Tricks: Uncovering a LaRouche scam | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...majestic Mohammed Ali Mosque has overlooked Cairo for 130 years. Last week Egyptians were contemplating another Muslim institution with the same name: Muhammad Ali, 44, the noted U.S. automaker. That's right, Ali has gone from rope-a-dope to car star. Lee Iacocca, you could be in a heavyweight fight here. The poetic, peripatetic former boxing champion was in Egypt to announce the launch of a two-seater sports car, to be called the Ali 3 W.C. (for three world championships). The $25,000-to-$30,000 item will be turned out in South Boston, Va., starting next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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