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...suggest many users have tried to break their habits since heroin supply fell, but drug workers see plenty of others who inject stimulants instead. "Our clients are saying, why waste our money on heroin when it's not very good quality and when ice is so cheap?" says Wendy Macken, head of Directions A.C.T., Canberra's largest non-government drug and alcohol service. "For them it doesn't matter what the effect is, as long as it takes them away from what they were feeling." The result, she says, is a growing number of amphetamine-dependent troublemakers: "With heroin...
...Michelle Macken...
...envelope is still sitting next to the mailbox," said Michelle E. Macken '89, who lives in Weld Hall. "It would have had a better chance of being read if it had been delivered to the door...
...plot is unimportant: an old guard (Walter Macken) and a young guard (Patrick McGoohan) wait tensely for a reprieve to arrive for the quare fellow (prison slang for a condemned man), and when it fails to arrive they lead him grimly to the gallows. What matters is the compelling illusion of life as it is lived in an average anachronistic prison: the natural humanity of the prisoners and their guards, the subhuman system that makes them beasts and keepers, the soul-destroying hatred of either for other, the teeth that glitter cruelly behind every smile, the moral stench of slowly...
Cromwell failed, says Author Macken, because of "little men" like Dominick MacMahon, who proved that the human back is stronger than the oppressor's whip. Surviving the siege of Drogheda-during which his wife is murdered and one child struck dumb-stubborn Dominick dodges his way through sacked and smoking Ireland accompanied by a saintly priest, helped by Irish guerrillas and making the customary hairbreadth escapes from gun and gallows. Author Macken brings such sweeping lyricism to this flight as to make it seem that plucky Dominick is battling his way the length of Siberia instead of the mere...