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...stretching roughly from Palm Beach south to Key West?is a region in trouble. An epidemic of violent crime, a plague of illicit drugs and a tidal wave of refugees have slammed into South Florida with the destructive power of a hurricane. Those three forces, and a number of lesser ills, threaten to turn one of the nation's most prosperous, congenial and naturally gorgeous regions into a paradise lost...
...hard part is remembering, amid the incessant bending of elbows for vodka collins, gin and tonics, seven and sevens, and pitchers of imported beer, where it is that you are supposed to do all of this drinking, and a lesser amount of consuming solid fibers. You ask your Yale friends and they shrug their sioulders, and allow their faces to assume that certain empty look you only get while reading the questions on your Economics 10 mid-term. One Yale junior tells you cutely, "If you want sex, or drugs, or rock and roll, you've come to the wrong...
...OTHER ACTORS, though facing lesser challenges, capture almost as high a pitch of intensity. The vaguely Old World accent of Mr. Glas, at first simply a deadpan foil for Randall's wit, soon begins to play vigorously against him with ironic understatement. Reiffel plays the role with all the control that it demands, sharing in the sense of rapid-fire, back-and-forth timing that make Glas's exchanges with Randall--whether dramatic or humorous--come off so well. The control holds up when it is most needed, at the play's conclusion, when Glas reveals much about his past...
...Begin that I will guarantee that Israel's quantitative and qualitative military edge will be maintained." Most reluctantly, Cohen narrowly came over to Reagan's side. Announcing his decision, he complained that the Administration had "first mishandled and then manhandled" the sale, which he described as the lesser of two evils. When Cohen later told colleagues in the Senate dining room that he was only trying to help Israel, everyone laughed. Said one Senator: "Come on, Bill. Just say you sold out. But don't give me that stuff about saving Israel...
Harvard, on the other hand, has made a habit of blowing lesser teams out of the water, often by ten-goal margins. In big games the Crimson have not shown the necessary poise, however, losing twice to Brown earlier in the season after a well-played first half. Sunday's game could prove different. Well-rested after having taken a two-week lay-off, the aquamen are at the peak of their game...