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...course, like alcohol, drugs need to be regulated--to ensure purity (fewer ODs from bad dope), to prohibit driving under the influence and to allow employers to fire and suspend those who come to work high. Education about drugs needs to be as pervasive as it is about smoking, sex and drinking. Also consider the fact that a sales tax on drugs could make millions for the government just as we would save the millions that now go toward waging a useless drug...
...nuclear holocaust, the plans often straddle the line between prudence and absurdity. The Civil Service Commission's crisis provisions include this regulation: "Employees reported as dead should be carried on administrative leave until the reported date of death." A Postal Service regulation, activated upon nuclear attack, would suspend the need for postage stamps on letters and postcards sent to devastated areas. Special delivery would be eliminated systemwide except for shipments of medicines and surgical dressings...
...statement from the Ivy League president said, "Our universities have long agreed to award our own financial aid funds to undergraduates only on the basis of demonstrated financial need. Last year we were obliged to suspend this agreement because the Department of Justice disputed its legality under the anti-trust laws. Now that the Higher Education Reauthorization Act has been signed into law, we plan to resume our financial aid agreement in the manner authorized by the new statute...
Certainly the Mexicans -- and many other Latin Americans -- were upset. Calling the ruling "invalid and unacceptable," Mexico threatened to suspend antidrug cooperation with the U.S. -- a threat rescinded after Washington offered assurances that its sovereignty would be respected in the future. But the diplomatic dust had hardly settled when Mexican officials charged that on June 13 agents from the U.S. crossed the border, seized Teodulo Romo Lopez and returned him to Tucson to face bail-jumping and cocaine-trafficking charges. The Salinas government quickly protested...
...movies -- cheap horror films, dingy porno, old instructional pictures on dating technique -- suspend belief. They become documentaries of people trying to make a good movie. With their preposterous narratives, fractured editing, tatty sets and monotonous line readings, they play like doomed dress rehearsals. First you are drawn into the catastrophe of the filmmaking process, like a rubbernecking motorist passing a road kill. Then you notice that these movies are doubly subversive: they not only subvert themselves, they rebel against the timid rules of traditional filmmaking. In this sense, bad movies are the first modernist movies, as the French long...