Word: tulia
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...profile of Charlize Theron (Hollywood is also where you're allowed to shamelessly plug) wasn't due until this week, I had taken a brief hiatus from my showbiz beat to chronicle the latest troubling chapter in America's drug war. In the summer of 1999, 43 residents of Tulia, Texas - a dry little town of less than 5,000 people in the windswept panhandle - were arrested for dealing cocaine. It was the most ambitious drug sting in the history of Swisher County, and there was great buzz surrounding the bust and self-congratulation among the majority of townsfolk...