Word: crime
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...interests are and where our enemies lie. While America for a century has fielded armies to defend itself against hostile nations with ever more deadly weaponry, Gore believes the future threats will pose dangers that cannot be measured by throw weight--a poisoned environment, vanishing resources, refugees, disease, hunger, crime and terrorism...
Regardless of what the governor does, the legislature has already staked out new ground. "It has broken one of the cardinal rules of American politics: Never be perceived as being soft on crime," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. "By their action, the legislature has voted to choose intelligent inquiry over politics." Beyond the question of race, Nebraska legislators also voted to find out what socioeconomic factors distinguish the state?s 10 death row inmates from its 165 other murderers who were sentenced to prison instead. Opponents of the death penalty believe the loosening of many procedural safeguards...
Security. If only because of the blue light phones that have sprouted all around campus, Harvard feels like a safer place. Also credit the Harvard Police for opening a substation in the Yard, being proactive on bike and laptop security, keeping the community well-informed when crime does happen and steering clear of the accusations of racism that once plagued it. Verdict: Better...
Moreover, everything in life that is dangerous, risky or bad disproportionately affects the poor: slum housing, street crime, small cars, hazardous jobs. By this logic, coal mining should be outlawed because the misery and risk and diseases of coal mining disproportionately fall on people who need the money. The sons of investment bankers do not go to West Virginia to mine. (They go there to run for the Senate...
...stretch to blame a talk show for a murder committed later by a guest. But the Amedures argued it was the show's recklessness that set the crime in motion. They contended that the producers should have screened the guests enough to know that Schmitz had a history of mental illness, and the show should have realized that the humiliation of being surprised by a gay crush on TV might send an emotionally fragile person like Schmitz over the edge. The jury agreed. (Schmitz is scheduled to be retried for the murder in August; a 1996 conviction was reversed...