Word: crimed
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...keeps 93% of its rich loam in farms, the heritage of a century of building a special culture on that treasure. There are in Iowa eight cities with populations over 50,000 but none with more than 200,000. Crowding is almost nonexistent, and so the attendant evils of crime and hopelessness are minimal. The core of the population also has some link to those people who first halted on the tallgrass prairie and sank their plows. Writes Author John Madson, an eloquent native Iowan: "Grassland of such magnitude was wholly alien to the western European mind. It diminished...
...Stone, the shame of the trial is that a "city famous for free speech prosecuted a philosopher guilty of no other crime than exercising it." But Socrates could easily have won acquittal, the author asserts and, in a charming exercise of historical imagination, composes the kind of speech the philosopher should have made. In essence, Stone contends, Socrates could have argued that Athens was on trial, not he. As his jurors knew well, he did not believe in free speech or democracy -- but they did. How then could they boast of those beliefs if they suppressed his right to express...
Urban problems are largely an abstraction. Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city, has a population of 183,000, and its revitalized downtown area more closely resembles a suburban shopping mall than a major city. In Iowa, crime is something that happens on television: the state's rate of violent crime is 60% lower than the national average. Iowans frequently boast of never locking their doors; politeness remains almost a state religion. As Roxanne Conlin, the unsuccessful 1982 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, jokes, "Being rude and killing someone are about on par here...
...Jersey. Pistone, who left the FBI in 1986, is no longer protected by the agency but carries a .38-cal. pistol at all times. The Mob has reason to rage at the former agent: his daring double life was instrumental in gaining more than 100 federal convictions of organized-crime members. He was a key witness in the "pizza connection" case involving Sicilian heroin importers, as well as the 1986 Mafia commission trial in New York City...
...equal importance, Pistone exposed the degree to which Government crime- busting efforts have weakened the Mafia, says Ronald Goldstock, director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. The Mob, which once ran thorough security checks on any stranger, simply lacked the "discipline and internal controls" to unmask the agent, he says...