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...impact in the life of families and our society is much lower than it was before decriminalization," says Joao Castel-Branco Goulao, Portugual's "drug czar" and president of the Institute on Drugs and Drug Addiction, adding that police are now able to re-focus on tracking much higher level dealers and larger quantities of drugs...
...institutional investors, particularly hedge funds, have taken a beating in the market and been forced to trim costs including staff, the demand for outside research has in some quarters actually increased. "There are different kinds of independent research," says Argus president John Eade. "As the settlement winds down, the focus is shifting away from ratings and reports to evolving forms, like expert networks and primary sources-meetings with our analysts, our institutional clients and different CEOs and CFOs we've gotten to know." But that analysis isn't making it into the hands of individual investors or their brokers...
...Beethoven’s music—Ayers’ favorite—clashes constantly with the images of the desperate and abandoned vagabonds, and the conflict is intentional and incisive. But the heavy emphasis on this political undercurrent of urban suffering detracts from what should be the focus of the film: Ayers’ personal struggle to find redemption through music. Director Joe Wright (“Atonement”) makes Lopez’s intentions toward Ayers clear: “I met a man who was down on his luck and I thought I could help...
...euphoria whatsoever. We know now for a fact that the active ingredient in marijuana also affects the nerve endings, the same place I pick up pain. So when I use pot, rather than it going to my brain and giving me a euphoria, it seems to focus on those inflamed nerve endings and it brings down my pain...
...bloody him now in preparation for that fight. "We have been watching and studying up on Koh for a long time," says one GOP judiciary committee staffer. "We didn't anticipate that he'd be named for legal adviser; now that he has, we've encouraged others to focus on his radical views even more." (Read "Fox News Continues Reign with Big Three...