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According to the 1968 Supreme Court decision Terry v. Ohio, police can conduct "stop-and-frisks" if they have a reasonable, particularized suspicion that criminal activity is afoot and a suspect is dangerous. But they cannot use these stops to go fishing for criminals in high-crime areas. Cops often fudge that distinction. "Police stop generally young males in high-drug-traffic areas based on very little suspicion all the time," says Bill Stuntz, a Harvard Law School professor. "The reality on the streets is some distance from what the law says." In Wilmington, the police insist that they abide...
Ayckbourn's focus on narrative structure will come as no surprise to his fans. This most ingenious of plotters loves playing with ideas of how a story should go - 1982's Intimate Exchanges famously explored a multitude of different endings. And some trickery is afoot in Damsels (directed by the author). In play No. 1, GamePlan, a disturbing drama of teenage prostitution turns into a hide-the-corpse farce; in play No. 2, FlatSpin, a lonely-gal romance becomes a spy thriller; and in RolePlay a meet-the-parents dinner comedy morphs into a piercing study of social class...
...never-before-published family photographs. Also this month, and also on the Internet, an actor and part-time researcher in the Czech Republic will begin posting the results of his unusual labors - recording the inscriptions on ancient Jewish tombstones (see accompanying story). And in Poland, plans are afoot to build a new museum that will recreate homes, streets and whole villages representing 800 years of Jewish life. The museum will be constructed on the site of the infamous Warsaw ghetto. Discussions are under way with American architect Frank Gehry, the son of Polish Jews. "We want Poland to be seen...
...present gestures towards the past and even tells time to slow down a bit. Ten percent of the country’s land is now protected in an extensive system of national parks and preserves, and there are plans afoot to increase that to 30 percent. The wildlife is justifiably famous, the countryside fairly pristine, the native cultures strong and varied, especially in the mountainous and heterogenous western provinces. Tourism, of the adventurous and hardy type is not insubstantial and the Mongolians are eyeing it as a potential major source of revenue. A few improvements have even been made...
...Child Left Behind Act--reflected the prevailing mood: to resist standardized tests was to desert kids. The legislation, which mandates annual testing in Grades 3 through 8, passed overwhelmingly. But as state legislatures sew up their budgets and students dive into year-end exams, a change is afoot--the sacred cow of school testing is getting tested itself...