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...sports. The problem is that "athletes carry a high profile," he says. "When a varsity athlete is working in the equipment room or some place else, people tend to notice. What they may miss are the 15 other workers employed who aren't a Tom Yohe [Harvard's first-string quarterback...
Before Harvard's present winning streak, Yale had won the race for four straight years. Previous to the Eli string, the Crimson had taken 17 straight races from...
Even among those charged with executing the antidrug measures, however, the string of government seizures can seem excessive and unfair, especially when they involve owners who may have had no idea that drugs were on board. "Say my kids go out and one of their friends leaves a roach in the ashtray," says Joseph McNamara, chief of the San Jose police department. "How would I know?" Federal agencies often return property when owners can show they knew nothing about the drugs involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that...
Advocates of legalization are still more disunited when it comes to spelling out a practical program, which hardly anyone has ventured to do. Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel, who represents a drug-riddled district in New York City's Harlem, poses a long string of questions for those who would legalize drugs. Among them: Which drugs should be permitted, just marijuana or the more damaging heroin, cocaine and angel dust? How would they be sold, by prescription through hospitals and clinics or in "drugstores," tobacco shops, even supermarkets? Would there be an age limit, and how would it be enforced? Would...
...pair of talented sophomores--Sharon Hayes and Barbarann Keffer, who went on to finish one-two atop the all-time Harvard career scoring list--the Crimson rocketed from last to first in '85-'86 and finally snapped Harvard's long string of futility...