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...Driving west from Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan's main city, you catch the smell almost immediately. Baking in the midday sun, marijuana bushes the size of a man give off the same dank stench that permeates hip parties from New York City to New South Wales. For the decade before the Soviet army invaded in 1979, the teahouses of Afghanistan were the toking tourist's hangout of choice. And even during 23 years of war, when the Afghans fought the Soviets and then one another, the hash trade thrived. "Afghan black" remained a staple sale for cannabis dealers across...
...fifteen vehicles were damaged. Another bar two doors down called Paddy's was also busy at the time and witnesses say there must be bodies inside that club as well. On the scene the thick smoke billows from the smouldering rubble, and rescue workers cover their noses to the smell of burning corpses...
...rebels we have seen over the last few years. They are the same guilty middle class suburbanites who hunger for a social cause as grand as the movements their parents joined in college, even if no such cause currently exists. They are the superheroes of non-issues who can smell a distressed janitor or a non-fair-trade cup of coffee from a mile away and can instantly mount an impassioned protest without even thinking...
...Quincy for more “pre-gaming,” as she calls it. FM wonders when the freakin’ game starts. She is joined by Merritt R. Baer ’06, who is a born Saturday night leader. “I follow the smell of alcohol over the sound of music,” she explains. The Quincy scene at 10:30 is mellow at best, despite the incessant and spurned invitations from the classy hockey jocks of room 605 (“Laaaadiiiieees, come on in!”). Fortunately, the trip to Quincy...
...Phantom won’t disappoint in the slightest. Lif hasn’t toned down his politics—he’s just made them more personal: “The government is smiling because they smell the scent of death blowing / Just showing that their plan is running precisely / This nigger ought to fit into a wood box nicely,” he rhymes on “A Glimpse Of The Struggle.” Phantom is a concept album (as the belabored liner notes explain), dealing with the personal struggles of a young...