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CB: We inherited a city that was in financial free fall. A horrible financial disaster. Crime was escalating and there had been really no investments made in the police department in terms of personnel and more feet on the streets. In terms of technology we were in the dark ages...
At the bottom of many of the difficulties facing France lies the Algerian rebellion, which drains France of a million dollars daily, with little apparent result. But since the Second Empire; and her arte of economic growth has now surpassed even West Germany’s. Hoffman notes, â?...
Harvard can be said to be the birthplace of practicality. It was here, around the turn of the century, that William James developed the philosophy of Pragmatism and began an ethos of realism which is still alive and well at Harvard in 1983. In a place where being called ?...
On a trip last month to China with co-host Robert Siegel, Block visited Chengdu and witnessed the earthquake that rocked the region, causing thousands of casualties and making international headlines. Block, who had been preparing to interview a Protestant minister when the quake started, was able to file a...
'I have no hope that help will come.' AYE SHWE, a 52-year-old survivor of the cyclone that devastated Burma three weeks ago. The U.N. estimates that fewer than half of the disaster's 2.4 million victims have received emergency assistance