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...impoverished Liberty City district and by the influx of more than 100,000 Cuban refugees; the region cannot afford to let its image slip further. The lucrative winter resort season, which last year brought the state $16 billion, is about to begin again. Tales from the Miami police blotter have already reached Britain, which, at least until now, was expected to send a record 200,000 tourists to the state by year's end. Proclaimed the London Daily Express last month: "Florida's holiday paradise has become the holiday murder capital of the world...
...both areas. Within the last eight years, Harvard established the shuttle bus, the escort car, the double-locked door policy, the blue light phone system, increased security guards, and better lighting. Recent improvements and policy changes include the establishment of the permanent College Committee on Security, the weekly "House Blotter"--a new HUPD publication describing all crimes that occur each week, and the requirement that all police cruisers drive students home between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. We laud the efforts of the police department; however, women are still being raped, assaulted and harassed...
...only in terms of a right to attend criminal trials. But spokesmen for the press jubilantly interpreted it to reach far beyond trials. James Goodale, a lawyer active in First Amendment cases, predicts that reporters will be helped in getting a look at "prisons, small-town meetings, the police blotter" and other places, proceedings and records that have often been closed to the press...
Like an ink blot spreading relentlessly across a clean blotter, Harvard may well continue to spread into and dominate Cambridge--or so city officials fear, in the wake of a new University loan program which offers low-interest, long-term mortgage terms to tenured faculty members buying nearby housing...
...That may be understandable, but the problem is that the major characters are so well-known that the pseudonyms become a real distraction, an annoying reminder to the reader that he actually went out and spent good money on a book with all the dramatic intensity of a police blotter and nowhere near the imagaination of the fairy-tale writers on the Post reporting corps. As for the minor characters--well, they're pretty recognizable, too. Like the announcer says, the names have been changed, but not the ethnicities...