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...treatment on demand will not guarantee a drug-free America. For one thing, only about a quarter of all drug abusers currently seek help to kick their habits. And treatment is far less effective with the inner-city poor than with middle-class drug users. But even a partial success would save more lives and dollars than the present, failed approach. All it would take is a recognition that real wars aren't fought with balloons and puppets...
Theaters are warm, fuzzy, happy places, and I am partial to the odd excursion to them. Not that your mate Tony prides himself on great stores of dramatic knowledge; few mental cogs are engaged in the Gubba grey matter by play talk. But you've got to have some conversational material for Saturday morning beyond the carroty looking stain on your trousers...
Vidal -- perversely brilliant novelist, acerbic gadfly and now movie actor -- lives in self-imposed partial exile in a massive villa in the postcard- picturesque town of Ravello on Italy's Amalfi coast. All his surroundings are serene. Vidal, 67, is a tireless, disciplined author, and his house is in every detail of location and layout designed to enhance concentration...
...garden, fills the window of Interior with an Egyptian Curtain, 1948, its explosive light seeming to cast an inky black shadow under the bowl of fruit. The room is culture; the window frames nature; it is a kind of picture-within-a-picture, another trope that Matisse was partial...
...that Harvard didn't heed his advice at the time. Recent history has shown that sanctions and divestment crippled the South African economy so vastly that the government had to move toward democratization. Harvard's partial divestment only hindered that process...