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...that of the Palestinian Authority harder. Under agreements made with Israel, the P.A. is supposed to crack down on militants threatening Israel. When it has suited Abbas to arrest his political foes in Hamas, he has been only too happy to oblige the Israelis (more than 500 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants are now in Palestinian jails). But Abbas cannot crack down on militants when Israel is showing its mailed fist, as it has done of late in Gaza. So at the height of the Israeli assault, Abbas was unable to stop one of his lieutenants from releasing 20 Hamas...
...Animal abuse shocks us as an affront to that emotional connection, and our culture reflects this. Animal Precincts, a television show that follows New York City animal cruelty investigators as they crack down on animal abuse crimes, has been one of Animal Planet Channel’s top rated shows since its 2001 release, and has spawned five spin-off series from Animal Cops Houston to Miami Animal Police...
Snoop Dogg is Long Beach’s renaissanceman. He has been a crack dealer, agang banger, a gangsta rapper, a comedyshow host, a pornographer, a marijuanaenthusiast, and, more recently, a realitytelevision star. Part of Snoop Dogg’s appealis that he is a pop culture icon whoseems to defy logic with his resiliency andprofile in the rap game. Snoop is just asvisible now as he was in 1992, when hewas the runaway guest star of Dr. Dre’swest coast classic “The Chronic.” Thatsaid, the question of whether you?...
...recently been pressuring North Korea to stem the flow of refugees. "Beijing wanted to nip in the bud, before the Olympics, any chance that the number of refugees would turn into a flood this year," says one diplomat who has followed the issue. "They've really tried to crack down on the border." Beijing isn't motivated purely by image concerns prior to Beijing 2008. The manufacturing economy in China's northeast, home to many state-owned companies, has slowed. "The Chinese already have plenty of surplus labor in that part of the country; they don't need or want...
...ridden inner cities. Inner-city dwellers and minorities are disproportionately victimized by the fundamentally flawed corrections system. The rate of incarceration for adult black males is one in 15—the rate for black men aged 20-34 is a staggering one in nine. Average prison sentences for crack cocaine, 85 percent of which are given to blacks, are 52 percent longer than sentences for powder cocaine, a facet of the structural racism that is exacerbating the inequality of the prison population. The recent U.S. Supreme court ruling allowing judges to sidestep mandatory minimum drug sentences is a welcome...