Word: homegrown
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...informer on the service's own payroll. According to Israeli intelligence sources, the informer never told Shin Bet if he had heard the accused assassin, Yigal Amir, threaten to kill Rabin. A state commission of inquiry is delving into the service's failure to protect Israel's leader from homegrown fanaticism, but regardless of the findings, the stature and morale of the Shin Bet have already been shattered...
...whatever the goals of the British, homegrown democrats like Lee realize that the colonial masters won't be around to enjoy--or suffer through--the results. So Lee has moved aggressively to ensure that Hong Kong's almost seven million residents have a voice of their own, arguing that neither China nor Britain are interested in real democracy--only in "selling Hong Kong down the river," as he said of his British masters...
...addition, Tom says homegrown pot is fresher than commercial pot. "In homegrown, less of the THC has converted to CBNs," he says. THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is what creates the mild psychedelic effect of marijuana. CBNs, or cannabidiolic acids, produce effects such as drowsiness and red eyes...
Hoyte's ideas are appealing because they attack the malaise of hidebound tradition that plagues our campus. He all but endorsed a real tenure track, which would result in Harvard tenuring homegrown scholars before their hair turns gray. He argued for stronger career development programs, so that moving up the administrative and academic ladder involves more than just kissing the asses of the white males in power. He suggested that the ad hoc process which generally decides whether a scholar gets tenure may systematically eliminate scholars of diverse ideas and backgrounds...
Some have interpreted Oklahoma City as a kind of Reichstag fire, the rube militias being the embryos of an American Nazism. That is overheated; anyway, why go abroad for bad news? The real precedents are homegrown. Years ago, D.H. Lawrence, making his way through American literature, fell upon Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo and pronounced, "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." A fancy line, but true only of a certain whip-mean conscienceless strain in the American character. It is not a bad description of the Oklahoma City suspect's eyes...