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...editor also acknowledged that the story's contention that crack smoking in the inner city can be traced to a single Nicaraguan drug ring (Blandon was called "the Johnny Appleseed of crack") was an "oversimplification" and ignored evidence that the crack epidemic was a "complex phenomenon that had more than one origin." Finally, Ceppos admitted, the Mercury News "did not have proof" that top CIA officials knew the contras were getting money from the L.A. drug connection. "If we were to publish 'Dark Alliance' today," he said, "it would be edited differently. It would state fewer conclusions as certainties...
Summer love is a phenomenon as old as, well, summer, but a lot of designers have decided that the summer of '97 is the season for romance. They're offering up delicate feminine frocks and fluid wide-legged pants that caress the body like a breeze. Pale tones, cool watercolors and neutrals are popping up all over in soft materials such as light wools, chiffon, crepe de chine and jersey. For the more daring, there's the citrus palette, with all its variations on lime green, orange and yellow. And for the downright bold, sheer fabrics are moving into daywear...
...discussed the phenomenon of highly paid corporate CEOs who earn millions a year [BUSINESS, April 28], often as much as 200 times the salary of the average factory worker. How does a salary of $24,000 a year for the typical employee relate to the $20 million to $30 million annual salary that a company executive may earn? The long-ago TV quiz show Dollar a Second provides a clue. With 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour, at a dollar a second the overpaid CEO makes $3,600 an hour. Since he might...
...that very few celebrate the holidays specific to their nation of origin. At first glance, it seems like any sort of nationalist sentiment for any country other than America is wildly out of place here. Yet there is an extremely strong identification with Israel among many American Jews. This phenomenon is even more interesting considering that most of the people who celebrate Israeli Independence Day in this country have no roots that trace directly back to Israel. What prompts this solidarity with Israel that so many American Jews feel, to the point that they celebrate the independence of a nation...
...some difference between adherents of these two disciplines; one can hardly expect that students' interest in computer science as opposed to English literature will have no effect on them and will not, in turn, be affected by their particular personalities. And just as clearly, this is not a phenomenon confined to these hallowed Harvardian halls--the warring intellectual stereotypes of the acne-ridden, bespectacled, socially inept math-science geek and the gaunt, black-clad, pseudo-European postmodern drama student are universal in American society, and are probably older than any of us (except, perhaps, for the postmodern part). "Revenge...