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...lucky voter every two years. A Nebraska measure proposes to double funds for treating compulsive gamblers, to $1 million. Voters in Colorado and Nevada will decide whether to make the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana legal, while those in South Dakota vote on whether pot should be legalized for medical purposes. Georgians may choose to amend their constitution to require that the state preserve its "tradition of fishing and hunting." And in Michigan, embroiled in controversy over the 2004 lifting of a 99-year ban on the hunting of mourning doves, voters get a shot at reinstating...
...adventures of Encyclopedia Brown, the finest sleuth this side of the Atlantic. A stretch with that endless series about the Boxcar Children. Then I turned my attention to the Redwall saga, those enchanting tales of mice slaying snakes and badgers wielding clubs and the entire abbey feasting on pot pies and drinking cordials far into the night. And I was content. Sometimes, though, in the library for after-school (‘cause Hebrew School didn’t start till four), in between rounds of Truth or Dare, ignoring the screening of The Rescuers Down Under (as sweet...
...reached 100 million in 1915, when the largest segment of the foreign-born population came from Germany. We reached 200 million in 1967, when the largest portion of foreign-born Americans came from Italy. Today that largest segment is from Mexico. We are now less of a melting pot--the great assimilation metaphor of the 1950s--and more of a patchwork quilt, where people retain more of their national heritage within the context of being an American...
...Less clear are the signals sent by the College. The treatment of drug violations on campus varies from waving away the issue like so much pot smoke to public prosecutions and suspensions. This erratic enforcement of drug laws makes the College’s policy maddeningly unclear and unfairly singles out unlucky individuals for massively disproportionate punishment...
...unofficially, John L. Ellison, the assistant dean and secretary of the Administrative Board, said that students will rarely be disciplined solely for minor drugs violations. Yet last January the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) conducted a three-week investigation in order to catch two students allegedly smoking and dealing pot in DeWolfe (the charges were dismissed conditional on good behavior in May), and a month later HUPD bypassed College disciplinary procedure to prosecute two Quincy students for possession...