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Admittedly, legalization wouldn't be problem-free either. Americans have a peculiarly voracious appetite for drugs, and probably no one should weigh in on the debate who hasn't seen a friend or loved one hollowed out by cocaine or reduced to selling used appliances on the street. But if drugs take a ghastly toll, drug prohibition has proved itself, year after year, to be an even more debilitating social toxin...
Finally, there is the matter of those mind-boggling salaries. We should find out in the next couple of months exactly how much Harvard's money men earned last year. You can bet it's a lot. As in the past, we should weigh their compensation with their performance. And if the wages are more than the returns seem to justify--as they have been more often than not--then we shouldn't hesitate...
...comprehensive study of Loch Ness to be published in an upcoming issue of the Scottish Naturalist. The most likely explanation for the spate of sightings of the beast that began in 1868, says the study, is the presence in the lake of a school of sturgeon. Sturgeon can weigh up to 500 lbs.; their long snouts might be mistaken for monstrous necks, and their dorsal fins could appear to be humps...
...fellow female student has said to me more than once, "I can't wait to see you in thirty years when you'll be just as short and weigh 250 pounds. I'll fucking crack up in your face...
Boas Professor of International Economics Richard N. Cooper said the benefits of free trade between the United States and Mexico would out-weigh NAFTA's detrimental effects...