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...familiarity was somewhat mutual. Rubin admits that he doesn't listen to much country music but says he was interested in Cash from a "mythological" standpoint. "I don't see him as a country act," Rubin says. "I would say he embodies rock 'n' roll. He's an outlaw figure, and that is the essence of what rock 'n' roll is." When he made his pitch, Rubin was persuasive. "He immediately made me understand and believe that he really wanted to get the best out of me as an artist," says Cash. "There would be no clock in the studio...
Foreign buyers of all sorts and sources come shopping. Some work for multinational corporations with an eye to cheap supplies. Others are front men for organized crime or outlaw regimes, part of a swelling tide of agents who haunt export harbors on the Baltic Sea and travel the countryside. For help, many turn to Russians skilled in the use of blat (personal connections) and vzyatki (bribes) to oil the gears of the postempire black market...
...both sides can argue history. Smoking proponents warn that the current antismoking campaign could end up like Prohibition in the 1920s: banning cigarettes would be impossible to enforce and would only increase their outlaw appeal. "I think there's a strict analogy here," says Klein. "Both drugs have been used by cultures since the dawn of civilization; they can have very deleterious effects on society, but trying to ban them by law brings about circumstances which are much worse...
...they cannot erase the stigma. Smoking is seen, and smelled, as an insult to civilization. It is also one of the few insults that civilization can forcefully address. The mannerly middle class may not be able to outlaw assault weapons or rap music or violent movies, but it can shove smokers (usually the working class, the minorities and the young) into the pariah class, right next to the serial killers...
After the Hebron massacre of February 25, Palestinians were enraged. Israel's cabinet moved to outlaw the Jewish ultra-right Kach and Kahane Chai organizations. Israel arrested individual radical settlers and released 800 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Israel also appointed a commission of inquiry into the massacre...