Word: cop
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...Cop's partner disappears into world of vampires and government-conspiracy theories...
Indeed, much of the ecstasy taking--and the law enforcement under way to end it--has been accompanied by breathlessness. "It appears that the ecstasy problem will eclipse the crack-cocaine problem we experienced in the late 1980s," a cop told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. In April, 60 Minutes II prominently featured an Orlando, Fla., detective dolorously noting that "ecstasy is no different from crack, heroin." On the other side of the spectrum, at ecstasy.org you can find equally bloated praise of the drug. "We sing, we laugh, we share/ and most of all, we care," gushes an awful poem...
...quietly. It came in small bags brought by friends to share at secretive, insular clubs around the city. It was nothing big, just something that like-minded friends would pass among themselves while dancing away weekends. "We didn't even know it was here," said a Phoenix narcotics cop. "It is not a 911 drug. Parents would drop their kids off at clubs thinking everything was O.K. because they didn't serve alcohol...
While my heart goes out to those mothers whose children were killed through the misuse of guns [NATION, May 15], to simply blame the gun is a cop-out. Few parents take the time to explain the seriousness of a gun. When I was young, my father took me to a target range and under close supervision allowed me to fire a gun. That loud bang, the "kick" of the gun and the fact that I couldn't even hit the target taught me a more valuable lesson--respect. RICHARD L. BURT DeBary...
Sarah Jones hears voices. A homeless black woman. A Russian mother, married to a black man, talking about her daughter's cornrows. A homophobic Italian cop. A young girl in the projects who's "the only virgin left in her building." Jones, 25, the daughter of a black father and a mother of European and Caribbean descent, uses her one-woman show, Surface Transit, to get the voices out of her head and into the world. "We all know people like this," she says. "Some of us are people like this...