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...passed by Congress in 1984 made it easier to seize the assets of drug dealers before | conviction. Federal agents last year relieved them of about $360 million. Local police are trying some innovative approaches. In Boston, New York City and Miami, they have begun confiscating the cars of well-off suburbanites who drive into the cities and get arrested while buying crack. The haul in New York since late July: 107 cars, including several BMWs and at least one Mercedes-Benz. And everywhere arrest totals are rising. Police in Florida nabbed 4,573 suspected cocaine sellers last year, more than...
...grew up in Flint, Mich., quite well-off and bright to boot. He was out of the chute and headed for Harvard Law by the time they wed in 1966, just after she graduated from college with a vague notion of doing social work. Unpacking at Cambridge, they switched on a hand-me-down TV and discovered Julia Child, whose cooking show came to anchor their weeks...
...listened carefully at the Tuesday night housing debate between City Councillor David Sullivan and Candidate William Walsh. Yes, it's all true: the Rent Control Board (like most public bureaucracies) is usually slow and sometimes unpredictable. Rent control sometimes benefits the well-off, and sometimes causes financial hardship for landlords who are not at all wealthy. And rent control sometimes discourages landlords from re-investment in maintenance, which leads to housing deterioration. Yes, all true...
...scene was a dinner party in Fort Worth, attended by two dozen well-off conservatives. John Singlaub, a retired U.S. Army major general, had just ended a brief speech pleading for support for the Nicaraguan contras, specifically money for combat boots. One of the guests, a local businessman, stepped forward and wrote a check for $25,000; a few days later the same donor agreed to provide a loan for $50,000 more. The contribution paid for the , purchase of hundreds of pairs of boots -- and Singlaub was elated. Said he: "That's a real patriot...
...many ways, the five Fellows and the Treasurer of Harvard College, who--along with the President--make up the governing Corporation, are very much the same type. They are all middle-aged, white, male and well-off, and each is considered a success in his own area...