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Maybe the opponent had something to do with it. The SLU fans are known for their gentle spirits, so when the "You're not a goalie, you're a sieve...you're not a black hole, you just suck!" cheer burst from the Harvard contingent it seemed most ungracious...
...fingers will note that this is our third (3) issue of the What. With this numerical advance has come a process of maturity: from eager freshman enthusiasm to sophomore disillusionment to the jaded professionalism of real vets. Every morning, we editors drag our aching bones out of bed, suck some nicotine into our already charred lungs, and swill down a brand of coffee best kept in government-approved drums with yellow and black warning labels on their sides. All in quest of the product that you, the comfortable reader, now hold in your freshly manicured hands. So you damn well...
intelligent. There was no attempt to suck me into...
...wrote it. Look, we all know there's the dust of mediocrity covering everything, just as there was in 1886 or 1786--even more, no vacuum cleaners then. That's where we come in, the young writers of the world. We must make our words literary vacuum cleaners to suck the dust of mediocrity into the inimitable vortices of our prose. Didn't Churchill say something about dust: `we shall clear it on the land, we shall clear it on the beaches'--well, it'd be difficult to clear it on the beaches....But clear that dust we must. Until...
Maybe so, but a growing number of people seem to be willing to suck into their lungs the smoke from cocaine in a far more powerful form known variously as base, baseball, gravel, rock, roxanne and, more commonly, crack. Crack is cocaine boiled down (it makes a cracking sound when heated) into crystalline balls that can be smoked. "Crack is like throwing gas on the cocaine fire," says Manhattan Special Prosecutor Sterling Johnson. A gram of coke costs about $100, but two beads, or pea-shaped pieces, of crack go for $10, enough to guarantee a single user...