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Some people might call that paranoia. But learning the way to behave with cops has become a rite of passage for black and Hispanic youngsters. Just as parents warn their sons to wear a condom during sex or urge their kids to say no to drugs, now they drill them on the dos and don'ts of dealing with police. It's just a matter of time, many tell their kids, before you are stopped, for no other reason than that you are young and black. "They know it's part of their job bringing up a black or Hispanic...
...summer in Europe is a mythical rite of passage, a fantasy interlude between high school and the real world...
...never want to hear that piece again. I'm so sick of it that I don't think I can stomach [the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra's] performance of it," said Alice H. S. Farmer '00, who wrote about Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," which will be performed this Saturday in Sanders Theatre...
...time, the '70s seemed fairly awful--oversexed in a brainless way, infected by a fatal mix of narcissism and paranoia. Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Carter) seemed either crooked or clueless. Yet, in Frum's analysis, the hideous '70s were a fulcrum and a rite of passage that changed almost everything and brought us, for good and ill, to where we are. He's right. Much has been gained on the journey. But Frum does not sufficiently reckon what has been lost...
DRUG TRADE Large drugstore chains such as CVS and Rite Aid are selling prescription drugs online for 10% to 30% less than they charge in their stores. Why? They'd rather give their customers online discounts than lose them to another Web store. The trend doesn't stop at drugs. It's spilling over into other industries, such as books, music and computers. So the next time you think about dropping that prescription at your local drugstore, check the website first...