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...York City real estate broker, has no trouble selling eight-room apartments at an average price of $1,170,000, vs. $889,000 last year, many to Wall Street types, who typically pay 100% cash. Chairperson Barbara Corcoran sees only one difference from the '80s: "Then everybody bought with reckless abandon. In the '90s they put on a show of caution--and then they buy with reckless abandon...
...critics charge that she is too tough, too reckless in her faith in U.S. military power, as when she heartily endorsed the effort that Bush had started to rebuild Somalia and that Clinton expanded to disarm its warlords, only to back down after the effort proved fatal to 18 U.S. soldiers. Which gives Clinton his crowning irony: his pick for the first female U.S. Secretary of State is both praised and attacked for being macho...
...Miami's tradition of unruly official behavior is finally bringing painful consequences. After years of reckless financial management and a bribery scandal that produced federal charges against three top city officials, South Florida's largest city stands on the edge of bankruptcy, with a $68 million budget shortfall and bonds that have been downgraded to junk. Last week Florida Governor Lawton Chiles declared Miami to be in a "fiscal emergency" and said he would name a financial control board to oversee its finances. This could be the city's last chance to save itself; a grass-roots movement of Miami...
...true that the new generation of weed is stronger than what the boomers remember; that potency means it takes fewer puffs to get high, thus cutting down on damage to the respiratory system, for example. On the other hand, stronger pot and higher kids lead to more reckless driving and car accidents. It is true that smoking pot is less harmful than heavy drinking and does not threaten one's life, as do addictions to harder drugs. Proselytical pot smokers love to point out that a fatal overdose would require, say, 40 lbs. of grass smoked over a period...
...club screams, drools, and bleeds for perverse, unrestrained if highly orchestrated debaucheries, preferably of Homo sapiens. Two domineering, heavily-stocked bars squat facing each other across the red-rimmed, black linoleum dance floor; smug, wood-carved janissaries. The room takes cares to invoke the popular equation "Lust + Delusion = a reckless, carnal kind of vermilion violence, real good stuff...