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...will never know how often racist white police officers pull people over because they belong to a minority. But there are some signs that police departments have improved over the past 25 years. Since 1976, the number of African Americans killed by police each year has fallen by more than half, according to the Justice Department, from a rate of about 11 per million to 5 per million in 1998. With a few notable exceptions--Los Angeles, for one--most departments are less corrupt and more accountable than ever...
...presence of Western peacekeeping troops in the Balkans has stabilized Bosnia and Kosovo (except, of course, for those unfortunate enough to belong to any of the territory?s non-Albanian minorities). But the nation-building project remains somewhat stillborn: democratic elections in the various ethnic cantons of Bosnia routinely return ultra-nationalist governments who show little interest in moving the territory towards any sort of multicultural melting pot. And in Kosovo, even though the moderate Ibrahim Rugova trounced the hawks of the erstwhile Kosovo Liberation Army at the polls in local elections, it is those hawks that continue...
...calls "hand-to-hand promotion." Clients included Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead and Limp Bizkit. Next: hip-hop, electronics, films, fashion and, perhaps someday, even politics. "We want to become the voice of today's kids," says Benveniste, "empowering them to bond together and giving them something to belong to." But giving them some free stuff first...
...most passionate voices belong to homeowners like Paul Martin, a businessman whose hundred or so acres lie within the monument's outer boundaries. "The only people who want to shrink the boundaries are timber companies and cattle owners," he says. "If you don't believe they ruin the land, imagine what your street would look like after a cow or a logger with a chainsaw spent some time there. I don't understand why they insist on ruining this tiny speck on the map when they have millions of acres nearby they're allowed to destroy...
...most important new dimensions appear to belong to Bonds. Early in his career, when he was a stolen-base threat and the only player in history to be named Most Valuable Player three out of four seasons, Bonds was built like a track star. Today he's clearly bigger, listed at a defensive back-ish 230 lbs., but he insists, "I have trained the same way for the last 11 years... You can't really explain it. I come around and touch home plate and I'm in the dugout, and I'm like, 'What the hell did I just...