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...worth noting, however, that some police officers’ reluctance to enforce the law as it now reads may be because citizens of Massachusetts on whole (police included) overwhelmingly believe that marijuana use should not be considered a crime. While it is understandable that the Massachusetts Sheriff’s Union and the Massachusetts’ Chiefs of Police Association opposed Question 2 (due of the enforcement challenges that it presents), these very organizations could make their own—and citizens’—lives much easier by supporting movements such as the National Organization...

Author: By Justine R. Lescroart | Title: Half-Baked Reasons For Opposing Pot Law | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...Saturday in 1982 the Harvard Crimson published a story on a student-led march against violent crime in Black neighborhoods organized by a group of Black Christian undergraduates at Harvard in the William J. Seymour Society. This initiative foreshadowed over two decades of work conducted by Black student intellectual activists who were concerned about the growing problem of Black-on-Black violence and what was then becoming known as the Black underclass. At that time an ad hoc coalition of Black churchmen, in collaboration with the Nation of Islam and other grass roots activist began a series of fora...

Author: By Eugene F. Rivers iii | Title: Harvard and the Boston Miracle | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...only intensify as a demographic surge led to a large group of children entering their teenage years by 2006. In 1996 there were approximately 23,000 teenagers between the ages of 14 and 17 in Boston. In 2006 there were close to 30,000. The predicted spike in violent crime has become real, but little preparation had been made to meet the challenge. One important political truth which cannot be overemphasized is that no amount of federal, state or municipal intervention can serve as a substitute for effective parenting and adult supervision in the lives of children. Aggressive, targeted...

Author: By Eugene F. Rivers iii | Title: Harvard and the Boston Miracle | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...change its coverage. However, in a statement on television, he said staff will take more safety measures. "I think we will continue doing our job in the most efficient way possible but with the precautions that these types of messages [require us to take]," he said. "Men of organized crime, I want to tell you that we don't have anything against you. We are communicators. We are journalists. We are dedicated to informing, and as such, my colleagues don't want to be in the middle of these bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Media on High Alert After Attack on Televisa | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

Soldiers and federal police guarded the Televisa offices in the days following the attack, while Mexican and international media organizations poured out condemnations and demanded the apprehension of the assailants. "Solving this attack will be a new test for the government, which wants to make it a federal crime to use violence against the press," said Paris-based Reporters Without Borders in a news release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Media on High Alert After Attack on Televisa | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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