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...show's popularity has, predictably, inspired a few furrowed brows as well as belly laughs. Some are concerned that the on-camera spills are dangerous and might encourage reckless behavior; Di Bona and crew have rejected some clips for that reason (like one showing a toddler apparently driving a car, while a parent actually steers off-camera). Others are concerned that people may begin to stage scenes specially for the program. That would spoil the caught-in-the-act charm but would hardly be unexpected. Once you give America a chance to produce a show...
...roadside near Guadalajara in March 1985, one month after he had been kidnaped, the Mexican government quickly pinned the blame on Rafael Caro Quintero, a flamboyant 29-year-old kingpin of the Guadalajara drug cartel. But Camarena's comrades in the DEA did not believe that the reckless, illiterate "Rafa" had acted alone. The agents suspected the brains behind the complex crime were members of Mexico's power elite, who had everything to lose from the relentless probing of Camarena and his partners into the muck of the Mexican narcotics trade...
...offended and annoyed many who received the notices. Most of the people they sent draft cards probably agreed that American involvement in Central America is troublesome. Those who disagreed, who are the very people COCA should try to persuade, were only irritated by what they viewed as a reckless, anti-military gimmick...
With justification. Burnham, a veteran investigative reporter and author (The Rise of the Computer State), suggests that the IRS frequently uses its extraordinary powers of coercion in a presumptuous and reckless manner. He illustrates the charge with numerous cases, a few obviously selected for comic relief: the New York teenager, for example, who questioned the constitutionality of the income tax in a letter published in the Buffalo Courier-Express. Suspecting criminal noncompliance, 15 agents tailed the boy for four days, discovering that he talked to his mailman, ate pizza and read pornographic magazines. True, he never filed a tax form...
...doesn't take a Harvard Ph. D. to see the recurring pattern here. And Dartmouth already defeated Harvard earlier in the year in an electric 75-74 hair-raiser at Briggs Cage. If every-thing works out, the Big Green should rumble over the Crimson with reckless abandon come Tuesday night, right...