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Formerly a teacher of creative writing at Stanford--you wouldn't know it from the prose in One L, which has outrageous errors like "least painless" instead of "most painless" or "least painful"--Turow says he came to Harvard to meet his enemy. Who is the enemy? Good question. For most of One L, Turow wanders around that point, never quite explaining the theme that's supposed to tie the daily experiences together. Is it the legal system as it sustains class society and the state? Is it Harvard Law School as it breeds privilege and promotes inequality? Just what...
...plan, the state would license growers and retail dealers. He calculates that the scheme would cut in half the street price of pot (now about $25 per oz. in Louisville) and earn Kentucky about $150 million a year in fees-a heady prospect for politicians who would like a painless way to cut taxes and raise revenues at the same time...
...frequent buses ($1.55). New subway extension will begin operation in February. Flow Through: excellent, although no sidewalk checkin. Check-in at downtown terminal for intercontinental flights. Baggage carts. Layout: confusing, but improving. Three separate terminals linked by moving sidewalks. Longest unassisted walk: 950 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs checkout: painless. Hotels/Motels: excellent. Eight within a mile of airport. Amenities: humdrum minimum. Functional lounges. Nine short-order buffets, three coffee shops, open 24 hr. One restaurant, being rebuilt. Ten bars, three open 24 hr. Supermarket-like duty-free shops selling wide range of goods. Refinements include animal hostel, dramatic society that...
...against doctors, Mark Twain once complained that the "insane," monopolistic American medical system was "an infamous thing, a crime against a free man's right to choose his own assassin." Twain's fulmination is now being echoed by contemporary opponents of the medical establishment. Championing Laetrile, their painless apricot-pit panacea, they are insisting that Americans should be allowed a "freedom of choice" to pick their own cancer therapy...
This safe and painless method delineates the brain by feeding X-ray results into a computer, New added...