Word: copse
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The murder rate is down a bit in Bridgeport, but other violent crimes aren't. "There's still a subculture of drugs and guns," says state senator Alvin Penn. "We may develop around it, but that subculture hasn't disappeared." The residents are sick of it. At the funeral, grievers...
Glamorama is a book that reads like a movie, and its constant references to Victor's life being filmed ("I think the look they exchange is over-done; the director, surprisingly, does not") without any specific motive is a tidy commentary on the creeping increase of observation. After all, when...
Reno left the session feeling uneasy--understandably so, say Administration officials. Poised Response was anything but poised. And while the cops involved were never told which terrorist might carry out such an audacious attack, Reno and other top Administration aides had one man in mind: Osama bin Laden, whose Afghan...
The latest statistics from the Joint Committee on Taxation confirm what has been a long and disturbing trend. "The burden on the middle class has always been outsize," says TIME columnist Daniel Kadlec. "The last tax reform law simply did not include enough people." While it's good that low...
Annually, the town of Worcester is taken over by hordes of teenagers and young twenty-somethings in big pants, dreadlocks and various states of sobriety. The cops spend three days directing traffic and the townies sit, bemused, in the outdoor food court of the mall across the street from the...