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‘Crack House’: Investigation shows reasons for notoriety as a drug hot spot
Apr 15th
The Fenimore Hotel, often referred to by SU students as the "crack house," sits adjacent to Campion Hall. Photo: Braden VanDragt
Empty beer cans and used syringes litter the sidewalk and street. Homeless people loiter, panhandle and sometimes sleep on the sidewalk. People yell to upstairs apartments at all hours of the night, and all of this is only what is most easily observed.
Your guide to the financial crisis
Feb 8th
This article originally appeared in the October 8, 2008 issue of The Spectator
“Entire economy is in danger,” read the front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sept. 25, quoting George W. Bush. Five days later the headline read “Economy in shock,” in response to the 700 point drop in the DOW Jones Industrial Average that occurred the day before. The next day, a headline in the Wall Street Journal referred to this meltdown as “the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,” and the United States government began talking about using 700 billion dollars of the taxpayers’ money to “fix” the problem.
But what is the problem, exactly?