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...filled with documents at any interested passersby, is an embarrassment for the central government. So, each year, as the NPC plans its annual meeting in the capital to discuss major legislative and social issues, the police raze the petitioners' shantytown?only to see it sprout anew like some stubborn weed. This year, the demolition began in late January in preparation for the March 5 commencement of the NPC. Li barely escaped the security officials who hustled petitioners into vans to send them back to their hometowns. He lost his blanket and clothes in the raid, forcing him to keep warm...
...Muldoon is from East Boston, and he’ll be 24 in three days. He says he left Boston with eight dollars and a bag of weed, and became a stripper in Ohio en route to California. “You know what I did today?” he says. “I sat outside The Garage and watched people fall on the ice.” He’s restless, fingering the tattoos of Japanese characters and a cross he has on either side of his neck. “Physically, my body is telling...
...need is my CD, a bag of weed and some Cristal.” – R&B Thug...
...When I was sixteen, I wanted to be an entrepreneur, but selling weed was one of the few options open to me. Today, however, young people are inspired to have higher aspirations because of hip-hop. Young people now have all these people visible who make the choice to be entrepreneurs and inspire them to do the same. It's now a cultural thing in our community." (from America Behind the Color Line...
...surge in New Hampshire, the Senator manages to entangle himself regularly in grandiloquent and impenetrable rhetoric. There is a cardboard pomposity to it that drives his staff, the press corps--and a fair number of regular human beings--nuts. The people of Iowa had months to study Kerry, weed through his oratory, and finally came to the conclusion that the Senator has the knowledge in both foreign and domestic policy and the steadiness to be President. The rest of the country won't have that luxury...