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Even among those charged with executing the antidrug measures, however, the string of government seizures can seem excessive and unfair, especially when they involve owners who may have had no idea that drugs were on board. "Say my kids go out and one of their friends leaves a roach in the ashtray," says Joseph McNamara, chief of the San Jose police department. "How would I know?" Federal agencies often return property when owners can show they knew nothing about the drugs involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that...
...lack of profit would dismantle the booming criminal industry that now supplies them. Drug gangs would disappear as bootleggers did after the repeal of Prohibition; with them would go the current, pervasive corruption of police officers, lawyers, judges and politicians bribed by drug money. Drug dealing would no longer seem to be the only way out of the ghetto for underclass youths. Says Mayor Schmoke: "If you take the profit out of drug trafficking, you won't have young children hiding drugs ((on behalf of pushers)) for $100 a night or wearing beepers to school because it makes more sense...
This is the suburb as failed Eden, noted by two out of three American sociologists and not a few novelists. But Fischl's project is not to embroider cliches on it. Rather he finds images that seem to trail a whole narrative history behind them, but obliquely -- so that you, as viewer, are put at the threshold of a hidden life that may, if you look closer, be yours. Fischl is a true American realist, but he works at a pitch of psychological truth ! (especially about adolescent sexuality) not known in the American narrative art of his forebears...
...economists and investors always seem to search for clouds in even the sunniest skies. They noted that exports in March rose 23%, to a monthly record of $29 billion, and that imports went up as well, by 3.5%, to $38.7 billion. Some economists would have preferred to see a more moderate rise in exports, combined with a reduction in imports. Reason: large increases in both categories may indicate that the economy is in danger of overheating. Already, factories are operating at an average of 82.7% of capacity, the highest level in eight years. In many industries, plants are reaching their...
...seem to be the perfect preview for the already legendary Black Album, a collection of unreleased Prince tracks from the past couple of years which may hit import bins this summer (it will not have a U.S. release...