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MacFarquhar gave the announcement before a packed auditorium at the Kennedy School of Government last night, where scholars and journalists gave eyewitness accounts of the Beijing crack down...
...best, "Outland" is a very poor parlor trip. At worst, it's "Bloom County" on crack...
...true, as Gitell claims, that "each dollar spent on a gram of illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funneled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. "Drugs didn't kill Tiffany; drug laws did. Crack dealers, like the rest of us, don't particularly want to get killed--or kill anyone else--while trying to make a buck, but since drug deals can't be legally enforced like other commercial contracts, they need firepower to back them up. The government's irrational prohibitionist policies encourage a handful of teenaged criminals to terrorize minority neighborhoods in the inner...
...familiarity with these men's work, which includes the recommendation that marijuana enforcement be reduced, not expanded. This contrasts sharply with the President's recent proposal that federal funds be withheld from universities which fail to implement "effective" anti-drug policies. By and large, of course, it's not crack that college students are smoking...
...President's plan to crack down on such "casual" drug users, like Gitell's call for more aggresive University Police action against drugs, amounts to a massive assault on the privacy of students, for the sake of controlling a drug which generates little specific gang violence and is, according to some scientific evidence, safer than alcohol. Harvard needs to be a critic and conscientious objector, not an enthusiastic recruit. John Rigsby...