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...answer is no. Not because it isn't cool or smart or because you might end up in jail or dying in an AIDS ward, but no because it's wrong, because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of rational human beings, trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval slime by searching for truth and moral absolutes. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach. What Moses brought down from Mount Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions...
...summers, he has attended Sheridan College in Toronto, earning the equivalent of a junior college degree for his work in classical animation. Of these summers, he says, "First I was gonna work in a lab, a bio-chem lab. But then I thought that would be kind of a drag...
...lucky, some canny product get the film rights and turn it into a mini-series which those with brain cells can actually watch. Or perhaps he can persuade Avon books to buy it up, put on a slightly racy cover hinting of decadent Southern sensuality and drag a few suburban housewives into the realm of real literature. Otherwise, Mrs. Randall will remain a pleasure reserved only for those in the know...
...chilled the autocratic Ceausescu and his imperious wife Elena, 68, both of whose birthdays are national holidays. Beyond some pointed jabs at Rumania's dismal economic performance, Gorbachev avoided specific charges against the Ceausescu regime. The implicit warning, however, was clear: a recalcitrant Rumania would not be permitted to drag down the pace of Moscow's modernization drive...
...fact is, most smokers want to quit." Many of them embrace the new corporate activism as an incentive to give up tobacco once and for all. At Rhode Island's Newport Daily News, it was the smokers who unanimously voted to ban smoking from the premises, although taking a drag is not a cause for dismissal...