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...right for Jung just after he leaves Massachusetts for California: He meets flight attendant Barbara (Franka Potente, of Run Lola Run fame) and gay hairdresser Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens, once known as Pee-Wee Herman, in full-on camp mode). Through Derek, Jung becomes a small-time pot dealer on Manhattan Beach, but his dreams are bigger, and he flies into Mexico to the source of the marijuana. The good times roll—with the profits from dealing, Jung and Barbara buy a house in Acalpulco—and this first half of Blow is almost Edenic: everyone...
...traders will tell you that the distinguishing characteristic of a true bottom is sort of like a watched pot: When market-watchers yell "bottom" every time they get a day's rally, it breeds the kind of fleeting, knee-jerk optimism that keeps a real bottom from ever settling in. A real bottom is a thing of unabated pessimism and unapologetic capitulation, in which everybody jumps out the window and waits more than one hot minute before reentering the building and getting in the elevator...
...time swallowed those Asian sexual Shangri-las, and history, in the form of prudish colonialism, religious movements and puritanical social engineers such as Mao and Pol Pot, managed to drown the roots of those liberated notions. The Asia of the second half of the 20th century was a fundamentally conservative place, albeit with variations. In the largely Roman Catholic Philippines, men frequently had more than one wife. Few places were as straight-laced as Singapore, but its drag queens thrived. You could be gay in Java - if you liked isolation. "Homosexuality is tolerated in Indonesia," says Dede Oetomo, an anthropologist...
...Iowans, it appears, don't want to live in Vilsack's melting pot. This is the fourth whitest state in America, and some people want it to stay that way. Just last week the Iowa legislature began debating a proposal to make English the state's official language. A Des Moines Register poll last year found that 58% of those surveyed oppose Vilsack's plan to bring in more immigrants. "Do we really want to be another California, with all of its immigrant problems?" says Roger Harrison, 68, a retired lawyer from Marshalltown. Given such opposition, Vilsack's move...
MARCH 5, 2001 Santee, Calif. Charles Andrew Williams, 15, allegedly opened fire from a bathroom at Santana High, killing two and wounding 13. WARNING SIGNS Williams was bullied, a pot smoker, trying to fit in. He told at least a dozen people, including one adult, that there would be a shoot-out. When he later said he was joking,they believed...