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...more money but a shift in policing strategy. Following George Kelling and James Q. Wilson's now famous "broken windows" model, cops started arresting people for "life-style" offenses like public drunkenness. Giuliani's liberal predecessor David Dinkins couldn't use broken windows to evade the fiscal-austerity dilemma, because it required taking on minority-group leaders and civil libertarians who viewed these arrests as the harassment of African-American and Latino men. Giuliani did, and thereby won the hearts of outer-borough Democrats already hostile to Messinger's brand of upper-middle-class Manhattan liberalism. By making New Yorkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST OF THE LIBERALS | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

During their conversation with Coles, the men identified the difference between adolescent boys and girls as encapsulated in the dilemma of teenage...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coles Speaks On Teenage Parents At Ed School | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...position is part of the pleasure of having a monarchy. In a way, it gives a human aspect to the institution of head of state which is not possible in an elected system where one head of state follows another like so many brands of cars. The dilemma then is how one monarch can be a symbol and a personality at the same time. It is, admittedly, a very hard role to fit. Yet when the monarch is qualified, he or she can be one of the most effective unifiers of a nation. The world seems to have many such...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, | Title: The Despotic Monarch | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...crux of the matter is this: princess consorts, royal non-heirs such as Diana, are the weak archaic links in all royal families, which, except for Sweden, betray a marked preference for male succession. There is therefore a feminist dilemma regarding the behavior of modern princess consorts, not unlike the one that Hillary Clinton faced when her husband was running for president of this country. Essentially, the consort's role must be a supporting one, and always subordinate to both the monarch and the heir...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, | Title: A Modern Princess? | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...confusion is understandable. What is a hard-working elected representative supposed to do when the only direction he gets from the people is that they want direction? This dilemma has been examined carefully by Dan Carney in a recent issue of Congressional Quarterly. As reported there, Republican polling services, like Marketing Research Institute of Florida, rank moral issues above economic issues in importance to the voting public. This is a new mood in U.S. politics, and it has caught our lawmakers unprepared...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Moral Politics and the Polls | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

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