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...Nervously, the teens ease down a narrow stairway into a dark, dank room where an old man in a tank top sits surrounded by garbage bags full of dried 'shrooms, which he doles out in tiny, $4.80 bags. The teenagers say they'll buy 15, hoping to save some for friends back home. They re-emerge on the street, with their stash in a paper bag. Later they'll eat the mushrooms, maybe mixing them with bananas or yogurt to cut the bitter taste. "I'll try anything I don't have to shoot up," says Doi, 18. "I just...
Until last week, Levine assisted Summers at the Brookings Institute, the Washington think-tank where Summers spent six months following his government service...
...Lear has staved off every major threat with a combination of logic, persuasion, threats to cancel a whole episode (or the whole series), and scathing contempt for the censors' "think-tank mentality," his term for the corporate and governmental attitude that underestimates "how wise-heart a great many Americans...
...father, a onetime county supervisor, he is a stalwart supporter of the black community), while about the same proportion of Latinos voted for Villaraigosa. "The negative ethnic factor was being brought in," insists Harry Pachon, president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute in Claremont, Calif., a nonprofit Latino think tank. "It may have been unintended, but that was the message that the Latino community picked up." Others disagreed. "Those who are not black or Latino are making more of this than we are," says state Democratic chairman Art Torres, who campaigned for Villaraigosa...
...windowless conference room about the fine points of progressive taxation. He is also seriously charming, disarmingly direct and an unusual marriage of fresh thinker and hustling entrepreneur. In his previous life, he organized rock concerts for Labour, consulted on telecommunications, wrote books and founded the respected Third Way think tank Demos. After working for Blair at Downing Street, where he helped launch programs to cut poverty and unemployment, he became an officially nonpartisan civil servant last year in charge of 63 people trying to make government work smarter. "This government is obsessed with results," he says. How will...