Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most salient difference between the Shepard case and this one, however, is that while Shepard's murderers were driven to kill by hate, the boy's rape and death was a sex crime. It was repulsive, unconscionable - and the predictable pastime of perverted criminals. It was the kind of depraved act that happens with even more regularity against young females, and, indeed, if the victim had been a 13-year-old girl, the story would probably never have gotten beyond Benton County, much less Arkansas. (There is, of course, a double standard there.) Matthew Shepard died not because...
...TIME Daily poll: Hate Crime Laws...
...According to Theatre film buff co-directors, Marianne Lampke and Connie White, each season has a framework of five themes. "We give a certain personality to each day," says White. Here's how it goes: The women are big on film noir, a genre of shadowy crime films featuring cynical, malevolent characters (a "wonderful genre," says Marianne), and Mondays are largely devoted to these movies. Tuesdays host quirky, cult-classic, independent movies, and Wednesdays are reserved for "Recent Raves," selected from new art films that have left mainstream cinema, but are yet to be released on video. Thursdays feature films...
...argues that the productiveness of togetherness can be seen, for example, in the way students perform better if their parents are involved in the educational process, and in the correlation between a low crime rate and whether neighbors know each other's names. Using this latter example to make a distinction between moral judgment and practical evaluation, Putnam says, "it's not that it's a moral responsibility to know your neighbor's first name. It's that if nobody knows anybody else, crime goes...
Whether this is their first association with a campaign, or simply another step in a distinguished political career, these Faculty members have a hand in shaping election issues from crime to education to healthcare...