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Dear Reader-- The response to the drug contest has been overwhelming. Pounds and pounds of illicit drugs have poured into The Crimson and the editorial staff has been working diligently to sort and store the entries. Since I don't have $10 yet, the contest will be extended one more week. Send your entries to Rutger Fury!, c/o The Harvard Crimson. To repeat, losing entries will not be returned...
...mode of transportation wrecked, Dewitt unhappily bought a subway token and headed home. Was money really the only thing in life, he pondered. What had ever happened to hippie idealism, to the search for truth and beauty through illicit chemicals? Yet in trying to reconcile these opposites, Dewitt had hit upon the solution. It's all in my head, Dewitt thought. The whole banana, from the Peace Decade to the Me Decade, is contained within my own existence. I am the Walt Whitman of my times, of all times. After years of fruitless searching, Dewitt had ended his quest...
...heyday of Prohibition, Americans looked northward for booze, as truckloads of illicit liquor poured from Canada into a thirsty U.S. These days the high-proof smuggling traffic is operating in reverse, as Canadians try to get around their country's steep taxes on hooch. A 1 3/4-liter bottle of Smirnoff vodka sells for as much as $26.50 in Canada, with taxes accounting for nearly $22 of the price. A similar size bottle can be had for only $16 across the border in New York. "There's little stigma attached to smuggling liquor," says William McKissock, a senior Canada Customs antismuggling...
...preacher from Baton Rouge, La., with a substantial U.S. television audience. Swaggart denied any interest in "stealing" PTL and said the Bakker scandal was a "cancer that needed to be excised from the body of Christ." Swaggart did admit, however, that he had passed along rumors about Bakker's illicit behavior to officials of the Assemblies of God, the Pentecostal denomination in which both are clergy. Swaggart says yet more scandals are brewing. "I believe they will come out. But they won't come from...
...charged with insider trading, as a dozen others were, but with other rule-bending practices that have become commonly tolerated. The case against Jefferies, based partly on tips provided by the chastened Boesky, demonstrated that the insider- trading scandal is leading Government investigators to a wider range of illicit stock schemes...