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Barresi may emerge as the most potent member of this year's squad. Although not the fastest player on the field, Barresi has a knack for finding a loose ball and slamming it toward the goal...
...this year's public bane, just as it is hard to know why other threats that are ever present -- from nuclear holocaust to world hunger to environmental disaster -- seem to obsess the national consciousness in cycles. Perhaps it is the sheer insidiousness of crack, the newly popular, highly potent form of cocaine that can in short order transform the casual pleasure seeker into an addict. Perhaps it is the perception that drugs have spread into the workplace and the neighborhood, that they have arrived like the wolf at the door, or at least next door...
...other side of the world, along the spine of the Andes in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, both the lower and middle classes have begun smoking coca paste, a potent and addictive form of cocaine that costs only pennies a cigarette. "These countries have never had a problem like this before," says Manuel Gallardo, chief of the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "Their people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they...
Because of this enduring preeminence, Harvard and the people drawn to it have imposed as powerful an influence upon the nation as has any other private institution. Six Presidents, from John Adams to John F. Kennedy, came from Harvard, bringing with them some potent Cambridge-bred notions and cronies. Franklin D. Roosevelt had his New Deal, whose underlying Keynesianism, says Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, was imported from Cambridge. J.F.K. had his best and brightest, including Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy. Harvard's Henry Kissinger surely was the most powerful figure in the Nixon...
...down on drug trafficking and dealing, other antidrug crusaders were touting education and treatment as the key weapons in the drug war. In the Baltimore area, officials announced plans for expanded drug- awareness programs in local schools and a "crack" hot line to aid users of the new, highly potent form of cocaine...