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...Senior Class Gift co-chairs, we are writing in response to Ted Rose's Feb. 14 editorial, "Give the Senior Gift (the Boot)." What Mr. Rose is missing is the purpose of the Senior Gift. It is to educate our classmates about the financial apparatus of Harvard. If the purpose, as Mr. Rose suggests, was simply to get our classmates into the habit of giving, we could use the phone...
...care about democracy, the map of Louisiana should scare you. I don't mean the regular map of the boot-shaped state; I mean the new Congressional districting map. The United States Supreme Court didn't like it, and neither should...
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...most states the greatest challenge is the morass of juvenile justice. Close to a fifth of all violent crime is committed by kids younger than 18. While nearly all states are moving to try more juvenile offenders as adults, 30 states and the Federal Government are also experimenting with boot camps in which juvenile offenders are subjected to a military-style "shock incarceration" program of three to six months. Offered to first-term nonviolent offenders as an alternative to jail, the programs feature military drills and hard labor. Some also include substance-abuse treatment and training that ranges from...
THOUGH THEY TEND TO COST LESS than long prison terms, boot camps haven't had much impact on recidivism. "We're not finding any significant difference from similar offenders who are put on probation or who serve their time," says Doris MacKenzie, a University of Maryland researcher who has studied eight programs. As many as 60% of the graduates are arrested within a year of returning to their old haunts...