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...real estate. Local police also seem to get a special kick from seeing cocaine merchants stripped of their fancy possessions. Fort Lauderdale, Fla., police department ended last year with a $2.5 million surplus thanks to its expropriated share of local dealers' loot. Some cocaine tycoons are prosperous enough to shrug off the loss of a swank beach house or a DC-3 (fitted out with extra fuel tanks for long intercontinental coke flights) as business overhead. Still, says DEA Agent William Schnepper: "It's what hurts them the most. Not only do they go to prison, but they come...
...many Americans who understand what I've done," Mahre said. "That's unfortunate for skiing but nice for me. I'm not one for fame and fortune." He does not strike himself as being that phenomenal. "I grew up in the snow," he said with a shrug, the Cascades of Washington, "where skiing was just something children did after school," especially the nine Mahre children...
...might be easy to despair of justice for American Blacks anytime soon, especially in light of the way students seem to shrug off "That stuff." The challenge--which should not be confined to Black History Month, although that might be a good place to start--is to preserve at least the truth of American history. Who knows? People might even start working for systemic change...
...stuck in some weird, high-strung limbo between hope and hopelessness. Inmates' optimism is the manic wishfulness of losing gamblers. Their fatalism is generally not wise but numb, a brute shrug...
...tempted to shrug off Government ways, consoling oneself with the cynical belief that even the most guarded information eventually leaks out. The trouble is that leakage is neither dependable nor always timely. "Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead," Benjamin Franklin said, and there may be truth to that. But such folklore is no substitute for a sensible public policy. The public vs. Government skirmish over how much classification there should be will probably go on forever and, in any democracy, should...