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...investigators launched White Stallion in May 1995 after two sailors based in Naples were arrested as they arrived at the Rome airport with 6 kg of Turkish heroin, expecting, as military personnel, not to be searched by customs. The sailors turned out to be couriers for Nigerians plying the Golden Crescent heroin trail. That route begins in the opium fields of Afghanistan, runs through refineries in Turkey and then the wholesaling hubs of Italy and terminates in needle parks throughout Western Europe...
During the golden era of American higher education, the middle decades of the 20th century, the democratic potential of public universities seemed endless. James Bryant Conant, the president of Harvard, wrote an article in the Atlantic Monthly in 1943 calling for a new social type, the American radical. "He will favor public education, truly universal educational opportunity at every level. He will be little concerned with the future of private education," Conant wrote--this from the head of the country's most prominent private university...
This was clearly not what Boris Yeltsin expected. On May 3, a bright and unseasonably warm day, the President of Russia traveled about 160 miles northeast of Moscow to Yaroslavl, an industrial city known as part of the "golden ring" of ancient fortified towns that formed the historic heart of Russia. Before the 10-hour tour, Yeltsin's campaign handlers described Yaroslavl as "one of the nation's most stable" places, code for an area presumed sympathetic to Yeltsin. Yaroslavl was the first town outside the capital that he visited after the unsuccessful 1993 rebellion failed to dislodge him from...
...idea that television writing is a viable profession and that's what people are in college to learn was taking off right when I was graduating," Cohen says. "No one thought of [the Lampoon] as the golden road to Hollywood employment or anything...
...final fortnight, the dueling ads will push hard at emphasizing the different views of life in Israel. Labor's spots glow with the benefits of the peace process. Happy, smiling Israelis are shown cavorting amid prosperity; youngsters speed down a highway in a yellow convertible while the Golden Arches of the newly arrived McDonald's beckon. The images in the Likud ads stress the flaws in the current peace: a bus decimated by a suicide bomber, a burning car hit by a Hizballah Katyusha...