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...Giuliani and police chief Howard Safir (along with former chief William Bratton) are eagerly taking credit for the decline. Though previous Mayor David Dinkins deserves some credit for putting more cops on the beat, Giuliani allowed Bratton to do something Dinkins would never have approved: use those cops to crack down on minor offenders. This quality of life campaign tested a principle that Giuliani and Bratton had believed for years: the "Broken Windows" theory, first put forth in 1982 by criminologists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, who argued that a city that tolerates minor violations creates a disorderly...
...predicting that the Miltiades photograph will crack the Olympic-bombing case wide open. But it was precisely the kind of lead the FBI was hoping for when it took an aggressive new tack in the investigation last week, announcing a $500,000 reward and presenting an unusual televised show reviewing the main evidence. At an Atlanta press conference, deputy director Weldon Kennedy for the first time played a tape recording of the 7-sec. 911 call that warned of the bombing and asked anyone recognizing the voice to come forward. An agent modeled a replica of a military-style backpack...
...classic afternoon's adventure for young suburbanites, with a touch--but no more--of peril. In Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe and Kenilworth, the posh white suburbs served by New Trier, drug use isn't associated with gang violence, crack houses, addiction or dead-end despair. Getting high has become almost boringly conventional. Drew (names and some other identifying features have been changed), a regular at the Corner, has even kicked around the notion of buying "New Trier Smoking Club" jackets with his friends and awarding mock varsity letters...
...attend an East Coast college. "It's not just something that 'bad' people do. My dad went to an Ivy League school, and he and my mom both tried it in high school." Her parents' concern, she says, is that she'll buy pot laced with speed or crack. But Melinda, who seems representative of the average user at New Trier, smokes only occasionally and seems able to take it or leave it. "The people with problems are the ones who want being high to be reality," she says. "That...
...dilemma for Emily and many other parents of her generation is that she wants to enjoy her children, to be liked by them, so she feels constrained not to crack down too hard. "When we were growing up, there was a big black line between us and our parents," she says. Now she wears sandals, socks and jeans, just like her kids. In the car with her husband and two children, they can all agree on music by Santana, the Beatles and the Doors. "In a way, that makes things easier," says Emily, "but on the other hand, when...