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Reno's alternative is a carrot and a stick: offer nonviolent addicts treatment and rehabilitation, and save the jails for the most unsalvageable thugs. The laboratory for her experiments in crime and punishment was Miami's long, hot "crack summer" in 1986, when police were bringing in hundreds of pushers and addicts a night. She later fought to get the local judges, police and public defenders to agree to special drug courts that would "sentence" nonviolent offenders to a yearlong drug-rehab and -education program. After the first year, 9 out of 10 graduates were still clean, and cities around...
Perhaps, but will that deter further attacks? The case might never have been cracked without the help of Salem. FBI agents insist he did not drop into their lap: they were led to him by contacts carefully cultivated in the Muslim community. "There was some damn good police work involved," says one. But it seems unlikely that a similarly highly placed informant could be located in every incipient terrorist group. And, says former FBI director William Webster, there are "dozens and dozens" of similar groups around the country; their very lack of central organization or direction makes them difficult...
Gasior's evidence, which she claims shows a concerted government effort to suppress information about just how much U.S.-made war materiel ended up illegally in Saddam Hussein's hands, could help crack the murky scandal known as Iraqgate that dogged George Bush's final months in office. Questions still swirl around the role that Washington and a number of U.S. companies played in supplying Saddam's $100 billion worldwide military shopping spree that led up to his invasion of Kuwait...
...biggest enemy suddenly stopped being the monolithic Communist empire, and instead turned out to be the insidious dictators of small nations. While in high school, we basked in the glow of corporatism; life never felt much more dire than a Saturday-afternoon detention. Then drugs stopped being cool as crack hit the scene. Casual sex became an even bigger taboo in the age of AIDS...
...Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks' rage, blow...