In the past year, the cost of rice had jumped twenty-eight per cent, and vegetables a staggering hundred and forty-six per cent.

NEWYORKER: Election, Monitored

Instead, he attended a back-breaking number of fund-raisers, and asked everyone he and his supporters knew to contribute to his campaign the maximum legal amount of hard money, which was then forty-six hundred dollars.

NEWYORKER: Schmooze or Lose

It contained, I was told, just under a ton of marijuana, six hundred grams of cocaine, forty grams of ephedrine, just over a thousand tabs of synthetic drugs (Ecstasy, meth), and slightly more than thirty pounds of crystal.

NEWYORKER: The Kingpins

Jones is prized by del Toro for his tiny head, swanlike neck, and spindly physique (six feet three, a hundred and forty pounds).

NEWYORKER: Show The Monster

In 2011, local governments will spend well over six hundred billion, while the federal government is spending less than forty billion.

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He was forty-six at the time, and built like Anderson: five feet seven, about two hundred pounds.

NEWYORKER: King of Walks