Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekend. Two separate groups of students proposed that Billy join them on their trip to see The Game the next morning. Billy politely declines and lightheartedly advises them to not drink too much beer. Working as a security guard is more about fielding random queries than cracking down on crime. "Yeah, I get a lot of crazy requests," Billy remarks, "like the students who say, 'I know it's wrong, but could you do this?' The people who lock their clothes in somebody else's room, and then ask me to let them in. I tell them that...
Bernstein's brilliant melodies coupled with Stephen Sondheim's moving lyrics tell a story of injustice, poverty, crime and, yes, stereotype. But that story is intentionally told to reveal the assumptions inherent in society, to point them out to the audience in order to combat them, not to perpetuate them, as the Amherst petition's signers would have us believe...
...Cambridge is doing really well with crime prevention, so we're benefiting from that," said Peggy A. McNamara, spokesperson for the Harvard University Police Department, in an earlier interview...
Police say they see the current trends continuing for the near future, and small increases in certain types of crime are no reason to worry...
...problem with [crime] being at an all-time low is that a small increase really gets people worried," Pasquarello says...