Snow Job

IN Annie Hall, Woody Allen encounters cocaine at a Manhattan cocktail party. He dips his finger in the white powder, dabs a bit in his nostril, and sneezes violently, blowing the expensive stash all over the room.

George W. Bush has tried the same approach with rumors of cocaine use, but sneezing at them has not dispelled the questions. Other politicians— including Al Gore—have admitted without injury the use of marijuana in their youth, but the conventional wisdom says cocaine is different. Probably speaking for many, an 80-year-old Michigan woman told the Detroit News that past cocaine use “would be more troublesome tomeasa voter than if a candidate had used

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IN Annie Hall, Woody Allen encounters cocaine at a Manhattan cocktail party. He dips his finger in the white powder, dabs a bit in his nostril, and sneezes violently, blowing the expensive stash all over the room.

George W. Bush has tried the same approach with rumors of cocaine use, but sneezing at them has not dispelled the questions. Other politicians— including Al Gore—have admitted without injury the use of marijuana in their youth, but the conventional wisdom says cocaine is different. Probably speaking for many, an 80-year-old Michigan woman told the Detroit News that past cocaine use “would be more troublesome tomeasa voter than if a candidate had used