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Operation Cease-Fire is not just a police operation. It involves more than a dozen agencies, including the U.S. Attorney, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Suffolk County District Attorney as well as the Ten Point Coalition, a network of 43 black churches in the city. Says the Rev. Eugene Rivers, co-founder of the Ten Point Coalition: "The streets are much safer. The collaboration between the black churches and the police has produced results unseen in any other city." The two groups are now quietly working together to clear up scores...
Just a few communities south of Flint, in the rural lakefront enclave of Highland Township, train jumping has been elevated to the status of an art form. For generations, on any given weekend during summer, as many as three dozen kids might jump a train, eventually reminiscing the joy rides into tall tales. To be sure, getting onboard isn't that tough. The trains routinely stop at the Hop-In Grocery for a coffee break. But when the train gets going, it really gets going. The wheels clank heavily against the tracks and the cars rattle and shake fiercely...
...strong boost from the disintegration of the P.R.I.'s political infrastructure: the unions and local civic organizations that have traditionally delivered their votes, en masse, to the party. On the eve of the vote, some two dozen national unions, representing 2 million members, formed themselves into a new grouping called the Forum, severed their ties with the P.R.I. and told members to vote as they pleased...
Soon other patients with similar conditions turned up at Mayo and the MeritCare Medical Center in Fargo, N.D. By the time doctors had identified two dozen fen/phen users with heart-valve trouble, they realized they had a problem of potentially significant proportions on their hands. More than 18 million fen/phen prescriptions were written last year...
...House lawyers took of their conversations with Hillary Rodham Clinton. No lawyer-client privilege exists between government attorneys and officials, the court said, so the White House gave Starr the notes he sought: five pages about the First Lady's account of her actions after Foster's suicide, a dozen pages scribbled by lawyer Jane Sherburne during breaks in Hillary's January 1996 grand jury appearance. Starr is looking for evidence that the First Lady lied in sworn statements, especially about the Foster matter or the disappearance and reappearance of her Rose Law Firm billing records. The White House says...