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...quicksilver, and it manages to blend brutal scenes of New York City drug wars, hints of the supernatural reminiscent of a South American fable and political intrigue worthy of John le Carre. The scene is a haunted, Haiti-like island, and the four main characters are a blunt Manhattan policeman, a slippery arms dealer, a volatile Caribbean dictator whose paranoia is justified and an apparently immortal dwarf who serves the others as an all-knowing but helpless intermediary...
...apple pie, the choices are marijuana, hashish, cocaine and amphetamines. For Cherry Electrical Products, a semiconductor and electrical-equipment manufacturer near Chicago, the seamy side of company life came to light in October 1984, when two employees were arrested late one evening for selling marijuana to an undercover policeman. President Peter Cherry then discovered that drugs were being peddled in the company's stock room. One woman employee with an unmanageably expensive habit had allegedly become a parking-lot prostitute during breaks. Within three weeks, 20 workers who were accused of taking or selling drugs quit or were fired. Says...
Ripich was too hard on herself for refusing what appeared to be an invitation to have a drink with the man mistakenly collared by the policeman. She wonders if the man only meant to thank her for getting the policeman away from him. No way! The way to say "Thank you for getting that policeman off my back" is not to ask a woman out to a bar. It certainly does not involve chasing after the woman until she screams "No! Just get away from me!" when she has already made it clear that she wants to be left alone...
...across the street and told the policeman what was going on. He looked at me and said, "This isn't him?" gesturing with his eyes at the man he was talking to. The man was older, Black, and carrying a torn paper bag. "No, go up there... The bank is there, up the street." The cruiser crept away, braking again well before it reached the bank. I gave...
...police, the frightening character of street people, these are things we take for granted. There is not much we can do about them. Who knows what this man meant by asking me to have a drink with him? Maybe he wanted to thank me for getting the policeman to leave him alone. My outburst of hatred might have scared him as much...