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...second problem concerns the efficacy of our policies. Even though the public generally regards the "War on Drugs" and other counternarcotics efforts as positive solutions to the U.S.'s drug woes, our international drug strategy of the past decade has fallen flat on its face. Coletta Youngers of the Washington Office on Latin America has written that "U.S. taxpayers have provided nearly $290 billion for the war on drugs, yet cocaine and heroine are more readily available, and at cheaper prices, than ever before...
Harvard's efforts to attract more minority coaches have fallen flat, because they have uniformly failed to strike at the root at the problem: the largely white "good old boy" network of former athletes, friends and coaching colleagues through which Harvard finds and hires its coaches...
...doing well, so they're going to ship it all here." That makes America the consumer of last resort--a lifeline to many foreign economies, but at a heavy cost to many U.S. companies and workers. Again, such disruptions quickly get capitalized into stock prices: Nucor shares have fallen from $61 a year ago to $39 last week...
...This 1913 Beaux Arts gem is one of America's grandest buildings. But it had fallen into neglect and clutter. Now architects Beyer Blinder Belle have brought back its luster. They reopened walkways, top right, and restored the ethereal ceiling over the main concourse, left. Upscale businesses like Michael Jordan's steak house, bottom, add new sparkle. When: Official rededication...
...first, on Sept. 19, he will make the holy trek. He will seek salvation in Las Vegas. The fallen former heavyweight champ is scheduled to ask the Nevada Athletic Commission to reinstate his boxing license. It's the fight of his life, not counting his 1992 rape conviction, and if a random sampling of gamblers is any indication, he's going to win. Henry Beste, 41, an actor who lives here, explained it in two words: "It's Vegas...