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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...saying that being a street cop is easy. You have to be a social worker one day and gear up for a riot the next. You are supposed to be winsome and unruffled as you ask that drunk to stop peeing on the sidewalk. The pay is bad, and, oh, yeah, you could get killed every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Race Got To Do With It? | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...sake of argument, assume for a moment that blacks and Hispanics are worse drivers--more likely to drive drunk, more likely to be involved in fatalities. (We know from federal studies that only 51% of blacks wear seat belts, vs. 62% of whites.) But is any of that relevant? Worries about traffic safety may be one reason minorities are stopped more often than whites, but those concerns don't explain--at least not entirely--why they are searched more often. Cops search cars for many reasons besides traffic safety--usually because the officers smell or see something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Race Got To Do With It? | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...consumerism run rampant. Barbecuing is the classic multitasking cuisine. First, there's the sheer spectacle of it: it's cooking as showing off. Grillers with a flair for the dramatic can cook such eye-catching dishes as beer-can chicken (cooked standing upright on two legs with a half-drunk beer shoved into its cavity). Then there's the opportunity to network. Who can resist rallying around the chef while he slaves over the swordfish? As Raichlen says, "Nobody ever comes and gives me a beer and a kiss hello when I'm deep-frying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thrill Of The Grill | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...gone there on the Green Line train. I’ve been to Fenway with my roommate, I’ve even been there on a date. I’ve seen the Sox win, seen them in a funk. I’ve seen them sober, seen them drunk...

Author: By David C. Newman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE: Green Monster Blues | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

...returned to a hero's welcome, the Prof. would remember. Mac Bundy threw me into Bobby Kennedy's pool. I did a cameo on "Laugh-In." I wrote a song called "Bobbie Magee and I," but Kristofferson stole it, the drunk - just changed the words a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There's No Excuse For Joe Ellis' Walter Mitty Lies | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

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