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Although the anonymous cab driver admits that he has been annoyed by drunken students returning home on Friday and Saturday nights, he says this pales in comparison to the time he was nearly beaten up in Boston's Roxbury-Dorchester area by a passenger who refused to pay his fare...
...didn't find anything that good last Thursday on American TV--just the usual hash of soaps, Sesame Street, talk, news ("We begin with a child's torment--a young boy beaten by a pipe!") and reruns of '70s cop shows, the latter accounting for most of the nonjournalistic violence. All told, I witnessed five killings, one every half hour. Not too horrific, but the count surely would have been higher had AMC been featuring John Wayne instead of Ronald Colman...
...cigarette makers' own playbook. "This king-of-the-mountain game they've played is a game that would be played by a schoolyard bully," says Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard, chair of the Tobacco Products Liability Project, which conducts research for anti-tobacco lawsuits. "After you've beaten a couple of kids up, nobody dares take you on. But the moment the kids say, 'We can take him if we band together,' the bully is finished." It helps too that the new legal strategy of states filing third-party claims against the tobacco companies to recoup the Medicaid dollars...
...epidemic of violence in America attacks the youngest and most vulnerable members of our society. Today in America, thousands of children will watch as 5,760 women will be beaten. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 15 children will be shot and killed by a handgun and 100,000 handguns will enter the 35,000 U.S. public schools. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 312 children will be arrested today for committing a violent crime; 9 of these arrests will be for murder. Today in America, according to the Pacific Center for Violence Prevention, one out of every...
...Saturday, St. Lawrence (19-9-2, 15-3-2) came to Bright with momentum, having beaten Brown 4-1 the night before. The Saints took an early 5-2 lead over the Crimson, but again the Crimson played solid hockey in the final period. Harvard took 36 shots in the third, but came up short as only two of those shots found their way to the back...