Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston police had been investigating 95 suspicious fires that occurred between 1973 and 1976, including one that led last year to a Pulitzer-prizewinning photograph of a woman and little girl plummeting from a collapsed fire escape (the woman died, but the child survived). Last week the police came up...
But the initial breakthrough in the investigation was the result of mobilized anger on the part of residents in one of the burned-out sections. After appealing to local politicians and city agencies to investigate the wave of fires that had been destroying their neighborhood since 1973-and getting little...
Many experts draw a careful line between the ordinary criminal and the terrorist. Explains Rand's Jenkins: "Terrorism is violence aimed at [those] people watching. Fear is the intended effect, not the byproduct. That distinguishes terrorist tactics from muggings and other forms of violent crime."
RIGHT ABOUT THAT TIME, I met a group of prisoners in Walpole who were trying to improve conditions there. It is not easy for them to get a hearing. One of them told me, "People outside don't care if a prisoner's stabbed; they just think, `So there's...
The men I met at Walpole this summer--one of them is isolated now in Four Block--are optimistic that they will be able to get a hearing, to have some input into decisions about their lives, but at the moment it seems unlikely. "It's just another criminal," the...