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...longer much of a problem in the U.S. Instead, all our racial troubles can be traced to the fact that "black culture" is so dysfunctional it amounts to a "civilizational" gap between African Americans and the rest of society. He does not bother to differentiate between the crime-ridden urban underclass and the middle-class high achievers such as Woodson, head of the Washington-based National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and Loury, a professor at Boston University...
...issue that we often see as irrelevant to our lives at Harvard is crime something that few of us think about with any regularity. We tease our friends at Yale about having to live in crime-ridden New Haven, boasting about the relative safety of Cambridge. But as some recent events demonstrate, Harvard is by no means invulnerable to crime...
Since taking office, the mayor has broken ground for the $165 million New Jersey Performing Arts Center, which is scheduled to open in 1997. He has got a supermarket chain to agree to open a store in the crime-ridden central ward and has promoted the construction of affordable housing, including the widely admired low-rise Society Hill development...
Regarding your talk with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo [INTERVIEW, June 19], I would ask if he is living in the same politically corrupt, crime-ridden, economically bankrupt country as I am. Or is he living in paradise with Alice in Wonderland? Come on, Mr. President, face reality: your five-year economic plan is a pipe dream. Get real. Talk to the people, not just to the sycophants who surround you and live in luxury. Luis C. Calvillo Mexico City...
...residents of the two houses are well aware, there is no really safe way to access the houses, located almost as close to crime-ridden Central Square as to gentrified Harvard Square. A student who makes the journey has two choices: a walk down an unlit residential street or a walk along Memorial Drive and the river. Neither is safe...