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...their demands became insatiable as their addictions deepened? Or would there be some kind of so-many-grams-per- customer limit? If so, again, how would it be enforced? As long as these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered, says Rangel sarcastically, legalization will remain "idle chitchat as cocktail glasses knock together at social events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking the Unthinkable | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...willing to say drugs should be decriminalized. But investing large amounts of money to interdict supply obviously is not working. We've spent over $300,000 in the past few months in police overtime alone raiding crack houses. We've brought in front-end loaders to knock down walls to get into some of these places, but as soon as we put one out of business, another springs up. We need to direct more attention from interdiction efforts to educating the user to reject drugs." Giuliani, while favoring more enforcement and tougher penalties, in part agrees. Says he: "We spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking the Unthinkable | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...father of a beer belch that could knock down every drop of loose water in the locker-room shower was, of course, Babe Ruth. "When the Babe left the train for the ball park," relates Pete Rose, as if Rose were not only alive then but could still smell the yeast, "he would remind the porter to have the bathtub full of beer by the time he returned." Rose got the story straight from Waite Hoyt, the late pitcher and alcoholic, who along with Third Baseman Joe Dugan was a pallbearer at Ruth's funeral in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Heady Mix: Booze and Baseball | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Agray and dreary rain was falling on Cambridge last night when the knock came at my door. Putting my textbook aside, I leapt to my feet and opened the door. "Yes?" I said...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Senior Class Spirit | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

This year, the Crimson is determined to knock the door down. It would be quite an accomplishment: Harvard has not won more than a single individual match in four trips to the NCAAs...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen to Face Trinity in NCAAs | 5/11/1988 | See Source »

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