Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sworn officer of the Commonwealth," Kotowski says. As with all officers in the state, Kotowski says, he is bound by oath to investigate any crime he comes across, whether it is on Harvard territory...
Some historians remember the 1920s as the decade of decadence, the age of Prohibition, when alcoholism became chic and terribly American. Flasks were all the rage, and organized crime controlled the liquor supply. And as Hemingway recalls, it was a time when "good writers were drinking writers...
That approach, however, has raised the ire of many legal experts and women's rights groups. "These cases are attacks on women," says Lynn Paltrow of the A.C.L.U.'s Reproductive Freedom Project. "If states pass laws that make maternal behavior a crime against the fetus, and if the state can create prenatal police patrols for cocaine use, then where would they draw the line?" Opponents note that alcohol use, smoking and other kinds of maternal conduct have also been shown to damage fetuses. Says Paltrow: "For some women, standing on their feet all day is harmful. Will they arrest them...
...dance competition and festival, in addition to the usual social and partying events. They spend nowhere near equivalent time, energy and resources mounting mechanisms to confront the long-haul task of rolling back the myriad social pathologies among sections of the Black poor such as massive Black-on-Black crime, abysmal education performance and runaway teenage motherhood and fatherhood. So there is no legitimate political and social reason why Harvard College should extend its imprimatur to Black Greeks and no academic reason either...
...would be a crime if I didn't mention my favorite tense joke at this point: "A man dreams one night about being a teepee. The next night he dreams he is a wigwam. The next night, he's a a teepee again. The next night, wigwam. Teepee. Wigwam. Teepee. Wigwam. The psychiatrist says 'I know your problem--you're too tense...