Word: doped
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...civilian police force and coast guard. But the fledgling, threadbare agencies are a laugh to the cartels. U.S. officials, citing Haitian inspector general reports on officer misconduct, estimate that 85% of police supervisors--including four in Cap-Haitien who were recently caught with their own bulging satchels of dope cash--are in the pockets of traffickers. The Haitian coast guard has made a few impressive busts in recent years, but it has fewer than 100 men and about 10 ships--some of the best of which are fast Colombian cigarette boats that agents have seized from dealers...
...sometimes ransack their boats and planes upon arrival, hoping to grab some cocaine they can sell back in their shantytowns--at cut-rate prices that would give a drug lord heart failure. European tourists who recently came ashore in sailboats were beaten by mobs because their vessels contained no dope. Diplomats already call Haiti a failed state. But scenes like these are earning the country the brand of something worse: a narco state...
...that's almost a side issue. What counts in this movie is the developing relationship between Terry and Rudy. Terry may be a loser, but he's not a dope. His damage, and his sister's, stems from their having been orphaned as children. That accounts for her caution and his incaution. She thinks she has to keep her life small and manageable, so she has little to lose. He believes that since life is full of mischance, you might just as well wander and risk. So he brings Rudy along on an odd job where he teaches...
...that way. That's dope right? You feelin' it? Digital vinyl, shall...
...their three-bedroom home on Chicago's South Side. The parents had a sense of decorum. In front of Homer and his brother Frankie, they would refer to the two drugs as "boy" and "girl." Homer and Frankie never learned which was which, though they knew it was dope. Once, when the police came by, the brothers hid underneath a bed, emerging to beg the cops not to take their mom and dad to jail.But it was Homer and Frankie who were eventually taken away. One morning, as the boys played on the sidewalk in front of their home...