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...with strangled falsettos? Western culture is so extreme! I, for one, have always championed the stalwart Protestant notions of moderation and sobriety. Not that I am a Protestant (I’m descended from shiftless Irish potato farmers), but I think those values are important, especially in fashion and drug abuse. That’s why I was slightly disturbed by fashion’s recent adoration of wide-leg pants. Wide-leg trousers were all over New York’s fashion week, and have recently been embraced by such luminaries as Fergie (god, “Glamorous?...
...hadn't imposed its 'war on drugs' in Bolivia, Morales might have been just another coca farmer," says Kathryn Ledebur, Director of the Andean Information Network, a Bolivia-based NGO that advocates a change in U.S. anti-drug policy. "He rose to national prominence resisting U.S.-supervised military drug control operations...
...grown accustomed to an undercurrent in public policy debates that blames black women for an array of social and cultural failures. Without making distinctions, that racist sentiment casts us all as lazy and drug-addled welfare queens, thoughtless breeders of criminals, and unwed heathens who are sacking the sacred institution of marriage. The obverse, of course, is the black woman who presumes to move into the American mainstream. That woman is not successful. She is uppity...
USAGE The term clean-skin, once used to describe drug traffickers without a record, morphed in the late 1990s to characterize potential terrorists who weren't on any watch lists. But several have already proved their deadly capabilities: the British government classified the four July 2005 London train bombers as clean-skins. Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, was a clean-skin as well. Following the London transit attacks, Britain began to crack down on the threat by doubling its lite police antiterrorist squad and stepping up efforts to recruit spies within Muslim communities...
...addition, the report proposes that the College’s “amnesty policy” be printed in the “Handbook for Students.” This policy states that when a student seeks medical assistance for a friend who is impaired by drugs or alcohol, neither student will face disciplinary action for alcohol or drug...