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...Special Forces, they were more than sufficient to put the Taliban to flight. But today, many of those warlords have reverted to their old ways, running personal fiefdoms with scant respect for democracy or human rights, restoring Afghanistan's place as the world's leading source of heroin, and delaying any transition to democracy. Ironically, many observers now believe that unless there's a substantial increase in the number of foreign troops there and the warlords are disarmed, Afghanistan will revert to being a failed state...
...Donnie Brasco caper, in which FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrated the gang and spent five years posing as a hoodlum named Brasco and, with his court testimony, helped send 200 Mob men to prison. Already reeling from the Pizza Connection prosecutions (after a bust that exposed a giant heroin distribution racket run from pizza parlors), the Bonannos were thrown off the Five Families commission and left for dead. With brains and muscle, Massino restored the clan to its old strength. And "Big Joey" (his weight was once nearly 400 lbs.) did it on the street, not in the stir...
Milch knows a thing or two about the addict's mind-set. While studying and working at Yale in the '60s and '70s under literary giants Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, he says he led a double life as a heroin junkie and gambling addict before cleaning up and becoming a writer for Hill Street Blues. Addicts and gamblers, says Milch, have a "risk taker" personality--just like prospectors, which is why so few of them got rich and so many saloonkeepers did. Says director-producer Davis Guggenheim: Milch has "something most people with intellect don't have--very...
...tender age of nine, which is, in my opinion, a worse fate than never having had TV at all. To quote my roommate’s shocked initial response, “It’s like giving someone heroin for two weeks and then taking it away...
TESTING: Random tests for steroids, LSD, cocaine, heroin and marijuana but not for ephedra or other supplements...