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...audience, which included graduate students and members of the Cambridge community, quietly listened as Beyl described the “blanket dance.” Mourners were to drop thoughts and money onto a blanket, then participate in “smudging” to cleanse themselves with smoke...
High school marijuana users everywhere breathed a heavy, smoke-tinged sigh of relief this past February 1. On that day, Congress amended the Higher Education Act (HEA): College students with pre-college drug offenses would again be eligible for federal financial aid.But students with offenses during college still forfeit their funds from the government—and a spate of drug-related incidents earlier this year at Harvard has raised questions about the inviolability of financial aid at the College.Opponents of the federal drug policy want the HEA to be amended further.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with...
...rest of French society, who will have to answer to them if things don't improve." That message was evident in the street battles last October and November when more than 10,300 cars, scores of businesses and dozens of public buildings went up in smoke. And 82% of respondents in a recent poll were skeptical that the government's plans would be enough to fix the problem; 86% expect future outbursts of violence. That sense of futility is what consigned the projects to slow decay in the first place. "People make the mistake of talking about a banlieue problem...
...casualties are hard to know at this stage, it is clear that many were wounded. Cell phones were jammed throughout the city to cut off communications. A long spell of rain in the afternoon helped the authorities by stopping the protests for a while, although large plumes of smoke continued to curl up into the Kathmandu skyline as protestors kept their fires burning. Then the rain ended, and the protestors came out again. This time the police seemed to have lost their patience...
...Catholicism, this is a necessary thing. The church counts on the very earthly process of an election - aided by the grandeur of church rituals and the weight of its history - to pass on its highest powers from one man to the next with just a puff of white smoke...