Why are we paying to keep a substance or substances illegal that it is obvious to all that we want and will continue to use regardless, especially at time when the leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, can eat his way through enough Hillbilly Heroine (oxycontin) to kill a small mule and remain admired and adored?
Part of Koufax's mystique is that he has remained an admired figure while maintaining his privacy.
Despite Mr. Scott-Heron's public problems, he remained an admired figure in music, and he made occasional concert appearances and was sought after as a collaborator.
Though Kean remained a passionately admired actor, as a public figure he became increasingly unpopular.
The Deutsche Bundesbank routinely missed its money-supply targets, and yet remained a credible, admired institution.
Her fiction, though admired, remained a specialist taste until she won the Booker prize in 1990 for Possession - a novel that transformed her reputation, brought her work to a mass audience (it went on to become a successful Hollywood film) and paid for the swimming pool at her house in France.
The native American writers he now admires remained unknown to him until he was in his 20s: Adrian Louis, Leslie Silko, Joy Harjo, Simon Ortiz, James Welch.
Even after his death in 1864, Archbishop Hughes remained a polarizing figure, admired and resented at the same time.
Widowed by Onassis, the former first lady returned to the public eye in the mid-1970s as a high-profile book editor, and she remained among the most admired women in the United States until her death in 1994.
In answering to a company that I remain convinced admires the film, I found myself in the odd position of defending my own ethics as a filmmaker who strives to examine violence, not encourage it.
