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...airport has brought in traffic of another sort: cocaine. Although marijuana is not uncommon on the island, the government views the increasing use of cocaine as disturbing enough to start an antidrug campaign. "We're seeing crimes here we've never seen before," says Jude Duprane, who runs a fast-food kiosk along the bustling harbor of St. George's. But even he admits the bucolic life persists. Says he: "It's still the same old Grenada...
...month apartment ("a slot") with his wife, new baby and nurse (paid for by his mother-in-law). The underclass is represented mainly by ghetto felons: armed robbers who list their occupations as "security guards" and young drug pushers who have mastered "the Pimp Roll," a swaggering gait not uncommon on the city's streets...
Certainly, there is nothing uncommon aboutleading a football game by less than a touchdownwith under a minute to play and the opponentdriving downfield...
...shakes his head. He lost his first match to Ray Taglione, and he can't understand it. He is more muscular than Ray, who is slightly built. It is not uncommon, however, to see a thin-armed man slam down a hulking, muscular arm in a split second. "He had some trick," says Joe. "He knew this thing with his hand." When Joe won his second match in this double-elimination event, his friends leaped out of their seats and cheered. Joe put his head down, embarrassed, and joined his wife in a far corner of the room...
With Professor of American Literature and Language and of Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors, the department's chairman, on sabbatical this year, the only tenured member of the department is W.E.B. DuBois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins. "Understaffing is not uncommon at Harvard," Huggins told The Crimson, "It's just more noticeable in a small department." Indeed. This year it will offer only three departmental courses...