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...premium prices. "The white high school kids from New Jersey and Long Island and all those other white middle-class jerks come here Friday and Saturday nights when the heroin is cut and the cocaine drowned with baby laxative," says the Captain in a voice as sharp as a razor blade. Three police cars scream past, their flashing lights turning the rain puddles red. A block ahead, the police swarm into a building. The Captain watches: "It's safer to score when the cops are all around. They usually let you go after they bust you and being busted...
...down on North Avenue. As I run, I am dreaming. There is something I can remember, somewhere where this whole piece of terror happened to me before. I remember, yes, it happened, running away from two boys who tried to hold me up with a razor blade one night in Harlem. I'm not aware of my legs lifting or my arms pumping or any part of running. I can't see. I am floating through a blur...
...real themes in all of literature; The Lords of Discipline is slavishly based on one of the tried-and-true. Fans of the New Testament should recognize a lot of the action. There are good guys and bad guys. The bad guys sneer most of the time, and put razor blades in the sneakers of Pierce, the first Black cadet in the Institute's history. Will, the hero, talks a lot about saving the Black cadet from his tormentors because it's the "right" thing to do, turning the other cheek, and doing unto others in the classical Christian manner...
Even if Kohl wins the coming elections, his margin could be razor thin. Still, Kohl insists he will regard any victory as a mandate to deploy NATO missiles if the Geneva negotiations should collapse...
...Illinois, death row is up on a bluff in a sandstone prison opened in 1878. The 49 current inmates have a 19th century landscape artist's view-the Mississippi River and miles of rich farmland beyond-except for the bars and razor wire. Menard Correctional Center (pop. 2,600) is the principal industry of Chester, Ill. (pop. 8,000). The inmates, two of whom are scheduled to be electrocuted this spring, are alone in their cells for at least 21 hours a day. When they are in transit, once a day to the law library and once...