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When a local group in Santa Cruz, Calif., distributed medical marijuana to sick patients in front of city hall two weeks ago as the mayor looked on, it conjured up images of Woodstock, not of present-day America. But the event, to protest the federal government’s arrest of two local cannabis growers, is an encouraging sign of marijuana’s growing acceptance. The federal government ought to respect states’ decisions about marijuana, rather than blindly enforcing federal statutes...
...mayor of Boston from a jail cell. Although none of us could vote, Radcliffe and Harvard students formed an organization called “Citizens for Hynes” and worked tirelessly to elect a relative unknown candidate, John B. Hynes, who won and after whom the present-day Hynes Convention Center is named. That exhilarating experience gave me a life-long love of politics and an extraordinary appreciation that miracles can occur if hard, hard work is a component...
...much currency at famous nightclubs in Odessa." (His English gets better?and less hilarious?as the book goes on.) Accompanied by Perchov's narcoleptic grandfather and a flatulent dog named Sammy Davis Jr., Foer and Perchov set off into the Ukrainian countryside to search for what's left of present-day Trachimbrod...
...much currency at famous nightclubs in Odessa." (His English gets better--and less hilarious--as the book goes on.) Accompanied by Perchov's narcoleptic grandfather and a flatulent dog named Sammy Davis Jr., Foer and Perchov set off into the Ukrainian countryside to search for what's left of present-day Trachimbrod...
While no one can honestly deny that blacks have suffered in the U.S.since its founding, slavery does not victimize present-day blacks. Geoffrey A. Starks ’02 admits as much in his op-ed (“Forty Acres and a Lexus,” April 15), saying that reparations would be targeted for “those in the black community who have remained cemented in the underclass,” and justifying reparations based on “on-going injustice.” Thus, he recognizes that many African-Americans today have become quite successful...