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...needed to be told. To put their plight in context, White spoke with a dozen scholars who have studied the under class and drew on his own firsthand knowledge as well: "Some of the guys I went to high school with are in jail now. Some have been strung out on drugs. Some have been killed. It is all the more depressing because many others have joined the growing class of black professionals who enjoy unprecedented opportunities in America. Every time I see one of the fellows who got left behind, I think that there but for the grace...
Scenario 2: Four sophomores have caused obscene messages like "Every donut needs a hole" and "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" to appear in every computer account, causing some high-strung teaching fellows to burst into tears every time they see a For-Next loop. What is the appropriate sentence for these malefactors...
...right. During two particularly excruciating minutes in the second half, the Ivy League foes strung together four fumbles in eight plays. This volleyball match came in the middle of a 23-play stretch when nearly half the plays were fumbles, interceptions, penalties or punts...
Slowly the dark side emerged. San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the communal temple of flower power, became a seedy slum of strung-out addicts. Heroin sent urban crime soaring as addicts stole to sustain their habits. For many college students, LSD became a bad trip...
...middle classes have begun smoking coca paste, a potent and addictive form of cocaine that costs only pennies a cigarette. "These countries have never had a problem like this before," says Manuel Gallardo, chief of the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "Their people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they gunned down Carlos Luna, the security chief of Avianca Airlines, because he had the temerity to bust a 440-lb. shipment...