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...room that first year was in Child Hall. Imagine my boundless enthusiasm upon learning this was an infamous "Walter Gropius building." It was the smallest single I've ever seen--with a wooden plank instead of a box spring frame and walls so thin my next door neighbor regularly could wake me with his snoring...
Then in April 1988, a load of Brazilian cedar boards arrived in Tarpon Springs, Fla., aboard the freighter Amazon Sky. DEA alerted Tampa Customs that an informer had reported drugs were aboard. Inspectors drilled holes in stacks of lumber planks, but found nothing. At the last moment, a Customs man saw a crew member drop a plank and glance about nervously. The inspector drilled into the board and hit white powder. The seizure was a record 3,270 kg of cocaine, but just 700 of the 9,000 planks held any drugs...
...evening's prime performance was turned in by Stephen Howe '93, who wore an extremely sporty red bow tie but clearly knew very little about poverty. After prattling on about Republican "smokescreens" for a while (the Democrats really seemed to love that word), Howe produced a bold three-plank proposal...
...Armstrong, Duke Ellington and writer Albert Murray have blended the traditions of Africans, Europeans, Native Americans and Asians into "the rich mulatto textures of American culture." When he sticks to the issues, Crouch is a provocative social analyst. But when he sets out to make his enemies walk the plank, it is Crouch who goes overboard...
...behind the right wing's wildly successful direct-mail operations. "The question is, Who decides, us or the government?" Stone will soon announce creation of Republicans for Choice, a political-action committee that will support pro- choice G.O.P. candidates and work to change the Republican platform's rigid antiabortion plank. Like Atwater, Stone is not flying solo. "Let's just say we know what she is up to," says a Bush aide...