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Just after midnight last Wednesday, a taxi chugging along the Kangnung highway on the east coast of South Korea threw its headlights briefly on a group of young men sitting by the roadside. The area is about 75 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone and has more than once been the scene of infiltration by North Korean spies and saboteurs. Taxi driver Lee Jin Gyu noted the short haircuts and similar clothing on the young men and began to wonder about them. After dropping off his passenger, he drove back to the spot. The men had left, but he took...
...Grille is not the problem, contrary to the continual citations of the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission (ABCC). The problem is that the laws of this nation (which penalize states' highway funding if they do not conform to the federal drinking age) are hypocritical in their construction. In the first place, 18-year-olds have always imbibed and will always imbibe alcohol...
...objective of the state with regard to such an appetite as that for alcohol, will best be served by allowing the college culture to function autonomously and for students to discipline themselves. The state has no particular interest in preventing students from drinking, only in receiving federal highway funding, so lax enforcement seems to be the most appropriate compromise...
...departments in the College of Liberal Arts. Forty-nine thousand students ambulated over a space that occupied the two sides of the Mississippi River and that, as a commuter campus, turned into a alien zone every evening. The campus is bordered by I-94, the east-west highway that goes from Chicago to Seattle. Around the University were erected--I recall from the center field of countless softball games in the local summer leagues that played on diamonds squinched between warehouses and railway tracks--great grain elevators, bearing different emblems--Cargill, General Mills, Ceresota--recalling the cathedral-church of Albi...
...waves, then stretches to cool down and beckons to an aide. Things start to happen. Local cops block off the lanes nearest the school and slow down the commuter traffic in the others. The cumbersome motorcade column makes a giant U-turn and pulls onto the highway. Agents secure the area, and Clinton goes over and shakes a block's worth of hands. Little kids stick their tiny fists through the cyclone fence; big kids and teachers grasp high over the top. Fifteen minutes later, as the motorcade pulls away, hundreds of young voices are squealing "Bill! Bill! Bill...