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...have made our answer to Esquire's question amply clear. We prefer to be hip than to be smart. We prefer to be cool than to be pious. We are beyond piety, and certainly we are close to being beyond the power of persuasion. Faith is a dream, knowledge a seventy-yard field goal. We are extraordinarily far from Athens or Jerusalem. Instead we have ensconced ourselves in the sugary bosom of a pop culture manufactured by sweaty-toothed media moguls in Los Angeles who cannot bear to be without their cellular telephones even when they go to the bathroom...
Carillo and his colleagues may be partners with the Colombians, but when it comes to smuggling, the two groups operate in distinctly different styles. While the Colombians have used elaborate devices such as custom-made yachts, high-tech communication decoders and even submarines, the Mexicans prefer a cruder methodology: stuffing the drugs into the trunks of cars, then relying on a combination of speed, scattershot runs and sheer bravado. Sometimes they blitz the border posts, sending eight or 10 vehicles through at a time, betting that U.S. Customs will search at most one vehicle in the convoy. A group...
...left to good books (some of which Hardy wrote) and above-average movies, for the most part. The only substitutes for these things are extraordinary people. Fortunately, these can be found on television in multitudes, though where you find them depends on what you consider extraordinary. You might prefer news magazines to afternoon talk shows, for example. I prefer the NBA playoffs...
...only concern is how he got hold of theaddresses," he said. "I would probably bring it tothe attention of the police. We do get quite a lotof strange mail, and I would prefer to have themevaluate...
Perhaps because they sit atop some of America's most fertile land-the topsoil, the remains of a prehistoric lake bed, can run 6 ft. deep -- many Cass County farmers say they are ready for change. Most find the welter of farm programs confining and confusing; many would prefer to shuck them altogether. Indeed, some farmers have begun to get out of the farm program voluntarily. Gerald Melvin, a third-generation farmer who works 3,000 acres that produce durum wheat, beans and five other crops, suggests that farmers would gladly accept reduced payments if Washington stopped placing burdensome environmental...