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...glorious successes and humiliating defeats: American frigates beat British ships; Detroit fell to the enemy. The crisis came in 1814, when Napoleon's defeat freed British resources for a final push in the U.S. The British tried, and failed, to take Lake Champlain in upstate New York. They burned Washington but were stopped outside Baltimore (a battle that inspired The Star-Spangled Banner), and they prepared to attack New Orleans...
...flooding the fax machines of state agriculture officials to protest the treatment of the mild-mannered dairyman. In Feburary, the Amish farmer who supplies Hebron's co-op with raw milk received a warning letter from the FDA about potential interstate commerce violations. Hebron met with federal officials in Detroit on March 6th to defend the legality of herd-sharing arrangments, and is adamant about continuing his milk runs...
...discovery of Grant's torso overshadowed a number of brutal murders in the poorer parts of Detroit. Andrew Anthos, 72, was badly beaten on Feb. 13 while he was trying to help a wheelchair-bound neighbor stuck in the slush outside his Detroit home. The attacker, according to witnesses, had harassed Anthos as he rode home on the city bus. Before he died on Feb. 23, Anthos, who was gay, told police his killer had called him a faggot and later followed him off the bus. "We believe this was a hate crime," says Melissa Pope of the Triangle Foundation...
...Over the years, Detroiters have become almost desensitized to such urban mayhem. Michael Cox, Michigan's attorney general, told TIME that Detroit has averaged one murder per day for more than two decades. Detroit's murder rate of 39.3 per 100,000 is six times as great as New York, more than three times that of Los Angeles and more than double that of Chicago. "It's even higher than in Philadelphia," says Cox, adding the total number of murders in Detroit climbed more than 17% last year. While 3,100 American soldiers have died in the war in Iraq...
...Detroit's chronic deficit, however, has forced the mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, to take officers off the street when more are needed. The state of Michigan, which is also facing a $2 billion budget deficit in the wake of the rapid downsizing of the state's automobile industry, is doing all it can to help Detroit, says Liz Boyd, spokeswoman for Governor Jennifer Granholm. The state has cracked down on offenders caught using guns in a crime and has worked to improve the coordination between federal, state, county and local police in and around Detroit. Cox says poverty and unemployment certainly...