Word: notes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piece by seven reporters and editors, Ceppos concluded that the series "did not meet our standards" in several respects. The story fingered Nicaraguan drug supplier Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes as the pivotal figure who funneled money from the L.A. crack trade to the contras, but failed to note that Blandon (who later became a U.S. government informant) testified that he stopped sending money to the contras in 1982, well before he began trafficking drugs in L.A. Moreover, Ceppos admitted, the assertion that "millions in profits" from drug dealing went to the contras was only an estimate, and may have been...
...biology watcher for many years and a professional in pain management, I'd like to sound a note of caution regarding the dopamine hypothesis of addiction. What is known about the relationship among dopamine, brain content and addictive behavior is associative, not causal. Even those of us who are advocates of greater understanding of neurotransmitter mechanisms in human behavior do not see the situation as "simpler than anyone has dared imagine." As our attempts at interdiction and control demonstrate, there is a flaw in advocating simple solutions to complex problems: the solutions are usually wrong. PHILIP C. CORY, M.D. President...
Starting with the very membership of these organizations, nothing could have been categorized as a volunteer act. Patriotic work became a requirement for professional or academic advancement. My father was characterized thus in his "Note on Attitude" that was necessary for his promotion as a chemical engineer: "He participated with great enthusiasm and zeal at the patriotic work with the students. He answered to all the calls of the party, putting the interest of the community in front of his personal interests...
...however, important and quite nasty skullduggery still goes on in the world. If you are Eric Truell, the young Paris bureau chief of a grand old American newspaper, you might, fizzing with nerve and careerism, sneak past police barricades and into a hostage standoff to interview the terrorists and note down their predictable, forlorn demands for social justice...
...repeatedly about The Crimson is that it doesn't contain any news. Obviously, this is an exaggeration. The events and people the Crimson reports on need to be reported and are clearly "news." We want to hear about the latest Undergraduate Council proposals (I think); it's important to note the administration's decisions and student activities. The Crimson is chock-full of this kind of news, and its reporting of these events, though sometimes plagued with errors, is thorough...