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...were also surprised by how widespread the use of the drug was among young suburban kids. "Only 1,000 ecstasy pills were seized in all of Arizona the previous year. Now we were finding it everywhere," says a police source. Shortly after the Phoenix police began climbing the distribution ladder, they began to hear one name over and over. It was Gravano. As the police were dealing with low-level dealers, the Drug Enforcement Agency intercepted a large Federal Express shipment of ecstasy in San Francisco. Faced with arrest, the dealer mentioned a name that stopped the feds in their...
...expect from in a country that eschews socialized medicine: Its health care is the best in the world - for those who can afford it. According to the study, rich Americans are the world's healthiest people. But, said Murray, those occupying the lower rungs on the socioeconomic ladder - Native Americans, poor rural black populations and some inner city populations - have healthy life expectancies right out of the Third World...
...include other, more general observations: that most friendship circles fall within the same tax bracket, that most student government "progressives" have never spent an hour volunteering at a shelter, and that most of our fellow students would readily stab us in the back in order to climb the extracurricular ladder. It is true that my indictment does not impugn every individual here. But, I am deeply certain that my portrait does accurately represent the culture of Harvard...
...allegiance of a new mutant named Wolverine, who must make a choice. Does he choose Xavier's idealistic dream of a peaceful co-existence between humanity and mutantkind, or does he opt for Magneto's vision of a world in which mutants replace humans on top of the evolutionary ladder? Translating a comic book onto the silver screen is no easy task-just ask Joel Schumacher of Batman infamy. But die-hard X-fans rejoiced when Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects) signed on to direct the adaptation of the most popular comic book of all time. Singer's reputation...
...wish our kids were as free and easy as the Governor. There he is swaggering on TV and enjoying a late adolescence, and the kids I meet seem cautious, fearful of making the wrong choice and of losing their place on the ladder and getting stuck among the slackers. Thanks to his loony attitude toward higher education ("If you're smart enough to go to college, you're smart enough to pay for it yourself"), tuition at our state colleges will stay sky-high, meaning kids who graduate leave with a debt load as big as a barn. This...