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...Dennis Barrie. His previous job was director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, and while there he was charged with obscenity for a controversial show of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs (Barrie was cleared). "I have a high-culture background," said Barrie, but pop culture "is one of the most potent forces in the world...
...Italy whose people have named their plagued government Tangentopoli, or "Pay-Off City," many are implicated in the corporation, and everyone is suspect. Not unlike the Sicilian tradition of the family so potent in the mafiosi, an implicit code of honor in Italy puts those who have broken the trust of the people permanently out of trust. The recent deaths may only express a more distasteful realization of this tradition...
...ambiguity of the response in Italy raises a more potent question: has society ever come to terms with the act of suicide and its different motivation? Despite education, an emotional public response, as to an assassination, is inevitable...
...Household Survey, 55% referred solely to pot; an additional 19% abused marijuana in combination with other drugs. "Cannabis is the drug that teaches our kids what other drugs are all about," says Charlie Stowell, the DEA's cannabis coordinator in California. He says today's marijuana is considerably more potent and expensive than the pot of the '60s because the amount of THC -- the ingredient that provides the high -- has risen from...
...with built-in black majorities came to be called "majority- minority" districts. More than a dozen new majority-minority seats were born in the South. Because of the redistricting based on the 1990 census, the number of black and Hispanic representatives in Congress rose from 36 to a politically potent 56 last year...