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...second question, in one sense the rules are different for celebrities than for politicians. But in another way, Letterman is exactly like a pol. With politicians and personalities alike, we tend to overlook transgressions, barring an actual crime, if they deliver for us, be it laughs or pork. Of course, we are always ready to be deeply outraged by moral failings of the people we didn't like to begin with. (See the top 10 disastrous Letterman interviews...
...Flint's new mayor, Dayne Walling, says the city is proud of its historical connection to GM. But it is looking for ways to diversify its economic base, revive the downtown areas and bring down the crime rate, which also has blighted the community's reputation. "We have some major challenges," he says...
...situation there is improving dramatically. The Israelis and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad have been cooperating on the removal of checkpoints and other economic impediments; the economy is growing at a 7% clip. U.S. Lieut. General Keith Dayton has supervised the training of an effective Palestinian security force; crime and terrorist acts are down significantly. (On the other hand, Hamas-controlled and Israel-isolated Gaza festers.) (See eight months of Obama's diplomacy...
Cambridge City Councillor Craig A. Kelley also expressed concern about the recent changes in the police log. On Oct. 5, he put forward a policy request seeking more information about how the department releases crime details. The department may have very good reasons for the change, he said, but they are not clear to the public...
...others think the ACLU is missing the point. The premise of the law is sound, says Laurence Tribe, a constitutional-law expert at Harvard. "If the moment you enter a church you don a cloak of immunity from the rule of law, then churches would become sanctuaries for crime," says Tribe. (Read "The Vatican Rethinks Laws on Abuse...