Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to think Harvard was pretty homogeneous--upper middle-class kids," says David C. Hsu '89 of Houston. But after spending a year at the College and working on dorm crew last week, the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Political Review says he has changed his mind and revels in the diversity he has found...
...sneaked into the U.S. come, and the 2,067-mile border with Mexico, gateway for much of the rest. The smugglers they are up against have almost unlimited funds. "They can afford to lease an entire ranch for one drop," says Marion Hambrick of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Houston. They can also buy the best equipment: advanced fiber boats that elude radar, scuba-diving gear, "voice privacy" scrambler radios and single-sideband transmitters, which are hard to intercept, and light planes that are often faster and have better radar than Customs' planes. Firearms too: gun battles between feds...
...What is not possible is to get a single law-enforcement officer to believe it. Instead, all over the country, lawmen wail that their best efforts are being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of drug traffic. "You can't say anything is working," admits Jim Goudy, commander of the Houston police narcotics division. In Boston, Deputy Superintendent William Celester concedes that raids on crack dens by newly organized police "impact teams" have accomplished little more than pushing the sites from one location to another. Los Angeles Narcotics Detective Kenneth Wilkinson expressed the point with classic simplicity at a meeting...
...dependency -- at least at first. But they feel an overpowering yearning for more. Bouts of depression and irritability can lead to deep depression and paranoia. "I was afraid to be with it and afraid to be without it," says Kurt Bolick, a 28-year-old oilfield-services reporter in Houston. "I was afraid of myself, I was afraid of life, I was afraid of everything. I was afraid, period...
...time he was 16, he made it to Houston, where he "slept on anybody's couch until I wore out my welcome." He hooked up with his uncle Nick Fain, who had lived with the family for a while and taught his nephew the rudiments of six-string rock guitar. "He was only five years older than I was," Earle says. "He was my hero." A friendship with Townes Van Zandt started Earle down the folk-music trail, where he eventually landed jobs on the coffeehouse circuit. "There was lots of noise and smoke. I became the world's loudest...