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Born to a working-class family in a rough part of Washington, Kenneth Glover thinks he was lucky to get out alive. "One-third of the friends I grew up with are dead," he says. "Another third are in jail or on dope. The rest of us just made it." He did more than just make it. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, the Chicago investment counselor recently co- founded the Harold Washington Foundation. Named for the late Chicago mayor whom Glover once served as campaign manager, it provides grants to blacks for education, health care...
...control lust for the intense feelings of power and well- being that flow from a hit of crack. "Crack has taken away these women's pride," says Thomas. "By the time they find their way here, they'll beg, steal and trade their bodies to the dope man for more." The mothers uneasily deny that their babies were affected by crack, but Thomas says all the children have shown signs of their mothers' drug...
Five wins. Thirty-nine losses. Humiliation. Ridicule. Riots outside the stadium. Awful players. Retreads like Rony Seikaly, the Heat's Great White Hope who cannot even shoot layups, have made Miami Coach Larry Rothstein look like a Great White Dope...
Drug dealers have been finding the gun trade a nice side business. In the past two years Jamaican drug gangs, known as "posses," that run the crack houses in Dallas have moved some 1,200 Southern firearms to other drug dealers in the North. Enterprising dope shippers can even arrange a "package deal" for their wealthy Northern buyers: a stolen luxury car that has drugs hidden in the door panels, with a cache of arms thrown...
...York City's health commissioner has his way, there will soon be a mug shot on file of every American pit bullterrier in the Big Apple. Hoping to rid New York of a canine breed favored by dope dealers because of its alleged propensity to clamp its powerful jaws on humans, Commissioner Stephen Joseph has proposed to the city's board of health that pit bull owners be required to have their dogs tattooed, muzzled in public, insured for a minimum liability of $100,000 and, yes, photographed for city records. If Joseph's proposal becomes part of the city...