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...third floor of a Mass. Ave. professional building. Just ask the receptionist at the counter for the cassette and booklet, surrendering your Stanley ID card and sharpening your two No. 2s. If you've been good, you can take a peppermint sucker from the big glass candy jar that Stanley keeps on the counter...
...singled out by public schools or libraries-but not for praise. In fact, these distinguished titles all appear on some current list or other of banned books: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Bernard Malamud's The Fixer, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Ralph Ellison's Invisible. Man, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, P.L Travers' Mary Poppins and The American Heritage Dictionary. Last week a collection...
...just as suddenly as the storm gathered, it blew over. Khan shrugged his shoulders and was a man transformed. When he looked back at the referee there was a self-conscious grin on his face. Damn, caught with my hand in the cookie jar once again. "Let call?" Khan said. "Okay...
Meese glowered. "Someone give him some jelly beans." An aide brought in a fresh jar, and Reagan began chewing. Meese continued: "We expect some trouble on the news cuts from a coalition of northeastern and middle-western Republicans who are dissatisfied with the program. They call themselves 'Gypsy Moths.' Any ideas on how to handle them...
...small manufacturers and dealers who purvey lookalikes, the product yields a lot of money with little legal risk. Says Lieut. Robert Long of the Massachusetts state police narcotics unit: "A dealer can buy about 1,000 look-alike pills for $45 per jar, or approximately 4? each. Then he goes out to some eighth-grader and sells those same pills for $2 apiece. Right off the bat he's making a profit of more than...