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He was found lying on the bathroom floor in the afternoon. All attempts to revive him failed. Presley had died of "cardiac arrythmia" -a severely irregular heartbeat-brought about by "undetermined causes." Doctors said there was "no evidence of any illegal drug use," although a new book co-authored by...
Djiboutians consoled themselves, as always, by chewing on kat (pronounced, roughly, cot), a mild narcotic leaf imported by air-because it loses its kick 72 hours after picking-from Ethiopia at the staggering rate of seven tons a day. A cheekful of kat, they say, provides something of a high...
Hard drugs are still available at Harvard, but they are neither as cheap nor as easy to obtain as they were a decade ago. In the late '60s Harvard Square earned a reputation as one of the nation's clearinghouses for drugs. Today the narcotic industry at Harvard has ducked...
Trollope has always had a distinguished following. Nathaniel Hawthorne claimed that he would rather write like Trollope than like Hawthorne. Trollope's novels, he said, "precisely suit my taste, solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale." Tolstoy said that "Trollope kills...
OF THE AUTHORS represented the work of Nizar Qabbani is the most memorable. Qabbani, while writing about people and places far from the West, succeeds in bring the reader close to an understanding of his literary environment. Rejecting the narcotic apathy in the midst of progress that he considers the...