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...virtual monopoly on the world cocaine trade. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that along with smaller groups, Rodriguez exports 700 tons of the drug annually. Thus he is a major contributor to America's drug plague and its attendant tragedies: the crack babies, the drive-by deaths, the myriad other lives left in ruins. Now, as he offered Quinn sirloin tips, fried shrimp and flan, he explained how he wanted to give all that...
...Green might be very tough to come by, as Dartmouth, looking like a particularly messy episode of ER: it has been plagued with myriad injuries this season...
...doubt the myriad consulting and investment banking firms are more eager than many other professions to showcase their wares to eager young Harvard students. And admittedly, careers like law and medicine require graduate school and are thus less interested in undergraduates...
Gradually people trickled in one by one. There was the girl from my math class, the guy from my dorm, the myriad of upperclasspeople I didn't even know, followed by the friendly police officer. Before the party even had a chance to get going, it was busted...
...myriad looted artworks left over from the war, there is only one ethical course open to the Russian authorities: they must honor Russia's signature on the 1954 and 1990 accords and let the works go back to Germany -- on condition that the Germans return a proportionate amount of the things they swiped. It would be intolerable for President Yeltsin to give in to the pressure of the ultranationalists and nostalgic apparatchiks who want to keep the looted art in Russia as "reparations." Theft is theft. But there may be capital to be made from letting...