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...prosecute and detain him. The U.S. could wipe out the drug trade tomorrow by legalization and taxation, which would take away the enormous profits earned in illicit trade and reduce theft by addicts who steal to support their habit. The huge sums reserved for incarceration and policing could be spent on health care and education. William A. Ring San Diego...
...clients of Ambroise Vollard, the foremost art dealer of the time, based in Paris, and one of the few contemporary champions of Cézanne. The painter, who would be recognized after his death as one of the fathers of modern painting, the direct inspiration for Cubism and Fauvism, spent his twilight years living in isolation in Aix-en-Provence, France, scorned by critics and ignored by the public. Outside attention, when it came in the form of a letter sent by Fabbri in 1899 praising "the aristocratic and austere" beauty of Cézanne's painting, was treated...
...before I even knew I had one—not out of some class-conscious master plan by my parents or anybody else’s, but by the bounds of polite society. Virtually everybody obeyed the same set of rules, designed to minimize anxiety all round. I have spent whole nights in the company of some friend-of-a-friend without ever looking them directly in the eye—much better than embarrassing everybody with public displays of friendliness...
...bewildering to realize that I have spent most of my two years at Harvard talking on the phone to people I will never meet...
...roommates. “They don’t care, they like it. They like to play with it.” But whatever her roommates think about her hamster, Laura still needs to protect it from the prying eyes of her super, and her mom. Zoë has spent time chilling out in the closet to avoid detection, and Laura says she might cover the cage with a towel during the next room check. Morgan M.W. Jessee ’09 sums up the general feeling on the subject, saying pets are okay with her as long as they?...