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...roust the drug dealers two or three times a night are "the Fury," from Plymouth Fury, the beat-up patrol car they drive. "Dicky check" -- genital search for drugs, done in the open and intended to humiliate -- is what the Fury imposes on the "clockers," the young black crack sellers who retail $10 bottles of crystallized cocaine at the edge of the Roosevelt projects. Why clockers? Don't explain too much; this isn't a National Geographic special; the author leaves the title's derivation hanging...
There is already motion on the fundraisingfront. Glimp has received "a few" multi-milliondollar pledges, and Rudenstine has been travellingthe country building goodwill with alumni. Nextyear, Harvard's crack fundraisers will be workingto line up commitments for a campaign that mostexpect will be the largest ever in the history ofhigher education...
...critics is Chinese dissident Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai, the diary of her harsh 6 1/2-year imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. Cheng notes that millions of Chinese are already devoted to Voice of America. And the new service might "give hard-liners an excuse to crack down on dissidents...
SOMETIME DURING my junior year a woman was killed near my high school in Seattle. The yellow police tape around the convenience store was a familiar sight. With three to four crack houses regularly in operation literally across the street and many more in the neighboring blocks, it was a rare week when there wasn't some kind of police bust or drug/gang-related violence in the area...
...mere baseball card to compete with the latest offering in candy stores and comic-book shops: "killer cards" that feature notorious mass murderers, complete with gory drawings and graphic descriptions of their crimes. Some New York State legislators, with the support of victims' rights groups, are seeking to crack down on the unsavory trading cards. Their bill, which parallels proposed legislation in a handful of other states, would make it a misdemeanor to sell such cards to minors. Argues sponsor Alan Hevesi, an assemblyman: "Where there is excessive violence in a film, children are barred from admission, and that...