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...everywhere. Three years ago, after a friend convinced former CIA Director James Woolsey of hemp's salubrious ecological profile, Woolsey became a lobbyist for the North American Industrial Hemp Council. Woolsey takes no direct swipes at the DEA, but he impugns its logic. "You'd have to be stark raving mad to try to hide marijuana in the middle of a hemp crop because of cross-pollination," he says. "I'm very proud of the fact that I've been attacked in High Times magazine." A High Times columnist called him a "dirtbag" for promoting hemp's potential to degrade...
...CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, which closely follows his own experiences growing up among killers, prostitutes and drug addicts on the streets of Harlem in the 1950s; in New York City. Published in 1965 during the height of the civil rights movement, Brown's stark novel sold four million copies. DIED. ANI PACHEN, 69, courageous Tibetan resistance leader who led 600 men in a guerrilla war against the invading Chinese; in Dharamsala, India. Inheriting the leadership role from her father, a former chieftain, Pachen was captured and imprisoned for 21 years after attempting...
...elevates the image of the dead Felix Partz to “a public icon standing for all the people who we have lost and as a tribute to the army of their caregivers,” according to List curator Bill Arning. Brightly colored objects surround Partz in stark contrast to his lifeless, emaciated face, testifying to the harrowing disease of AIDS...
President Bush’s use of “axis of evil” was not an oversimplification because the moral lines of the war on terror are so stark...
Indeed, at the outset of the match, it appeared Patterson might well notch the shutout as he kept freshman Michael Strong entirely off balance, reducing him to chasing the ball frantically around the court, a stark contrast to Patterson’s own calm play...