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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Instituted in 1986, the 100-to-1 disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentencing was meant to target crime, not color. But with crack-related violence on the wane, President Clinton agreed Tuesday to ease off on a policy many activists call racist because it imposes far heavier penalties on crack users, who are more likely to be black. Under the plan put forth by Attorney General Janet Reno and drug czar Barry McCaffrey, the disparity will be reduced to 10-to-1: five years would be the mandatory sentence for selling 25 grams of crack...
...money they get for prevention programs, the House would require them to spend it all on law enforcement. The White House wants to require safety locks on guns to prevent kids from accidentally shooting other kids, a provision opposed by the National Rifle Association. "A juvenile-crime bill should crack down on gangs and guns," says senior adviser Rahm Emanuel. "If it doesn't do that, it is a juvenile-crime bill in name only...
...result. Last week Boston completed its second year without anyone under 17 being killed by a firearm. No other American city with a population over half a million can match this record. "Boston is the first city in the country to interrupt the cycle of violence that began with crack," concludes David Kennedy, senior researcher at Harvard's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management...
...early '90s, Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan were war zones, teeming with guns. Since the Dorchester district court first began imposing curfews in 1991, the city's gangs can no longer hang with impunity on crack corners at midnight...
...lander, which is shut down every Martian night, and the message was not received. "One miscalculation cost us the whole evening," sighed J.P.L. deputy project manager Brian Muirhead. As a result, Sojourner remained incapacitated and unable to operate the next day. That led a rover team member to crack, "On the seventh day, it decided to rest...