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...telephone calls. Then, mistakenly believing Tyler was discussing drug deals, they informed the county sheriff's office. Supplied by an investigator with recording equipment, the neighbors proceeded to tape more than 20 cassettes of Tyler's phone conversations over the next few months. Although they never turned up a shred of evidence about drug sales, the tapes did help raise suspicion about some illegal personal business dealings...
There is certainly no shortage of skepticism about Collor's chances of succeeding, even though Brazil's foreign bankers generally approved of the people's choice. "No Brazilian politician has a shred of credibility in the marketplace," says Lawrence Brainard, a senior vice president at Bankers Trust, a major Brazilian creditor. "So people will simply discard what Collor said prior to elections and see what he actually does...
These students proposed different theories that explain the lack of romance at Harvard, which I shall now present objectively without any shred of bias...
Without offering a shred of evidence, the author proceeds to attack psychiatrists as "oddballs, Christ beards and psychotics" who were "exceptionally lonely and unhappy, socially ostracized at school and abused at home, either psychologically or physically." The article would make decent toilet reading if it didn't pretend to be nonfiction...
...books on drugs: "I have come to the view that humans have a need -- perhaps even a drive -- to alter their state of consciousness from time to time." Pioneer drug researcher Dr. Andrew Weil of the University of Arizona College of Medicine confirms that view: "There is not a shred of hope from history or from cross-cultural studies to suggest that human beings can live without psychoactive substances...