Word: doping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes all this tolerable for DiCaprio and his colleagues is the opportunity to bring The Beach to the screen. It is the story of an aimless traveler named Richard who gets a map leading to a secret beach where a post-hippie community uneasily shares its Eden with treacherous, dope-growing Thai farmers. Some critics described the novel as Lord of the Flies for Generation X. Though it sold a scant 17,000 copies in the U.S., it proved a cult hit in Britain and Thailand. Soon after it was published in 1996, British director Danny Boyle picked...
...Here's the scoop on this year's Yard interbreeding: all the dope freshmen girls are dating upperclassmen, leaving their male counterparts in a pathetic scramble for leftover booty. Rumor has it that FF ticket sales have hit a new low. "If the freshman facebook is any indication of our class, no wonder nobody's going to the formal," griped one jaded freshie...
...growing number of states and private groups have scrutinized these and other "mandatory-minimum laws," the generic name for statutes forcing judges to impose designated terms. The studies are finding that the laws cost enormous amounts of money, largely to lock up such nonviolent folks as teenage drug couriers, dope-starved addicts and unfortunate offenders like the Iowa man who got 10 years for stealing $30 worth of steaks from a grocery store and then struggling with a store clerk who tackled him (the struggle made it a felony...
Here's a thought: every dope in the world has got a cell phone. Give one to the ref, and have someone sitting in front of a TV call and overrule him when he blows it. Just do it on obvious blunders for now, and work out a better system in the off-season...
...nothing if not aspirational. Slip on a black shift dress--look like Audrey Hepburn! Or don a shirt with images of AK-47s and feel like a Latin American drug trafficker! This is the fantasy being played out by clean-cut men in Mexico who are making popular a dope-inspired high style. After all, it's not a crime to wear a loud shirt in public...