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...debate over America's war on drugs touches on nearly every hot button issue facing the country: Racism, sexism and class warfare all play their own critical roles in defining and further electrifying what has never been a simple exchange. In the past decade, an uproar has grown over the discrepancies between sentencing for possession of crack (which tends to surface in inner cities and often carries an extremely harsh punishment) and cocaine (the drug of choice among the upper class; repercussions tend to be much lighter) - a chasm that emphasizes race and class divides. Proportionately, more women than...
...told them that's impossible," Wong said. "It's going to be an uproar and students will be furious...
When Oxford University's Magdalen College rejected Laura E. Spence '04 and Harvard accepted her last spring, an uproar of protests swept across Europe...
QUEEN ELIZABETH Snaps pheasant's neck, causing uproar in country where nothing ever happens
...Gore-Lieberman bumper sticker on her car. "The freedom that we have to be able to speak our minds--and the vote is part of speaking our minds--is what makes us a great country," she says. Privately, however, she has told friends that the current uproar probably means she will have to give up her dream of being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives...