Word: kleine
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After the fifth Big Red goal, Klein felder called a timeout and mustered a defensive plan to stop the Cornell offense...
...Richard Klein, author of the 1993 book Cigarettes Are Sublime, also praises the contribution that smoking has made to our culture. "The power that cigarettes exercise and have exercised in various forms over the centuries," he says, "has something to do not only with their utility as a source of consolation and personal help but also as a tool for mitigating anxiety, as in wartime, and also as a spur to concentration...
...both sides can argue history. Smoking proponents warn that the current antismoking campaign could end up like Prohibition in the 1920s: banning cigarettes would be impossible to enforce and would only increase their outlaw appeal. "I think there's a strict analogy here," says Klein. "Both drugs have been used by cultures since the dawn of civilization; they can have very deleterious effects on society, but trying to ban them by law brings about circumstances which are much worse...
...Smokers may soon need to organize themselves into an underground religion, elevating cigarettes to sacramental status, as the Mexican Indians did to peyote. For what was once a seductive pleasure is now an endangered cult, subject to demonization by the fuming, nonsmoking majority. "Like wars of religion," writes Richard Klein in Cigarettes Are Sublime, "the campaign against smoking lends itself to cruel fanaticism and self-righteous indignation." People who would never dare chastise a co-worker for his body odor or four-letter vocabulary will demand of a smoker, "When you gonna give up that awful habit?" or just...
...Washington to provide testimony for a grand jury in Little Rock. At issue is a series of meetings between White House aides and Treasury Department officials connected to the Whitewater investigation. Another subpoena ordered the White House to preserve any evidence relating to the meetings. Deputy counsel Joel Klein immediately barred the destruction of computer records or the removal of any burn bags and trash containers...