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...houses but in the squalor of squatter shacks. About 18 million black families earn less than $220 a month. Half the black population is illiterate and half its work force has no job. Development experts say the national economy must grow at 3.5% a year to make even a dent in joblessness; the growth rate this year is expected to hover between...
...Gore claimed dubiously that a three-strikes law would make a "huge dent in violent crime," Clinton endorsed expanding the death penalty to 52 federal offenses, including the attempted assassination of the President; today, only a drug-related killing is a capital crime. Those on the front lines are appalled. "I know of no law-enforcement professional who believes the ((new)) death-penalty provisions would affect public safety in the slightest," says Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's respected district attorney. Equally troublesome, declared Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, the death penalty "remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake." According...
Carey W. Gabay '94, president of the Undergraduate Council, called Harvard's system an "invasion of stu- dent privacy" in December...
...course, Harvard didn't play particularly good defense, it again failed to dent the net away from its power play, and for all of the good things Aaron Israel did in goal, he picked a pretty terrible time to let in his softest goal of the year...
Someday, virtual-reality technology may enable people to put the screen icons behind them and step directly into the metaphor. In the future, says Levy, "we will cross the line between substance and cyberspace with increasing frequency, and think nothing of it." That's what Jobs would call a dent in the universe...