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...sentimental. Toth had a stock of T-shirts printed that read--you guessed it--"The Giant Sloth: The Legend Continues." He predicts that once the movement catches fire, he will be able to hawk the shirts in dining halls and unload them on giant sloth fans at $7 a crack. Keep that in mind when you are tempted to discount John Kenneth Galbraith's thesis that producers create the demand for their products...
...seasons as head coach at Harvard, Cleary has amassed 298 wins and could crack the 300 mark at Colgate this Saturday night. Cleary is also only 17 wins shy of Ralph "Cooney" Weiland's record 315 wins for a Harvard coach...
...even greater for Parker when the scoreboard favored his Terriers--the tournament underdogs--who couldn't figure out how to crack Burchill until late in the game...
...control still faces daunting practical and philosophical objections. Even some advocates think it is oversold. Police officers tend to equate guns with drugs; so long as the crack trade is not significantly reduced, they think, the inner-city shoot-outs will rage on and contribute to the impression (not entirely justified in light of slight overall declines in the national crime rate) of a rising tide of violent crime that has driven so many peaceful citizens to arm themselves. On the practical side, writing a definition of paramilitary weapons that would distinguish them from some types of semiautomatic hunting rifles...
Drug dealers have been finding the gun trade a nice side business. In the past two years Jamaican drug gangs, known as "posses," that run the crack houses in Dallas have moved some 1,200 Southern firearms to other drug dealers in the North. Enterprising dope shippers can even arrange a "package deal" for their wealthy Northern buyers: a stolen luxury car that has drugs hidden in the door panels, with a cache of arms thrown...