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...disturbing truth is that although three decades of lock-'em-up fever have made America the world's No. 1 jailer, there still aren't nearly enough cells to go around. The '80s zeal for harsh drug penalties has pushed the U.S. incarceration rate to 455 per 100,000 citizens and has run up an unprecedented annual tab of $21 billion for the construction of prisons and maintenance of inmates. As the nation's inmate population swells toward 1.4 million, prison officials must release career criminals to make room for first-time drug offenders. The growing public outcry against violent...
...rest of Face the Music is bubble-gum sweet, alternating between mid- tempo make-out sound tracks and swooning ballads whose message is pretty much summed up by the dilemma expressed in Girls: "What would boys be without girls to love? . . . / Can't live with 'em, can't live without girls." That's the first thing boys learn when they grow...
...local gourmet restaurant, was making dinner. Dunsterites were asked to arrive at the dining hall at six in "neat attire." As might have been expected, the sophomores over-dressed. The food was better than Turkey Tettrazini has ever been, and each place setting was equipped with four--count'em: one, two, three, four--forks. There was a seafood flatula stuffed with fat shrimp, and salad made from what seemed like pesky courtyard weeds. To cleanse the palate of residual flavors, there was a trou normand lime sorbet. Dining Services Czar Michael Berry made the rounds, and a string quartet made...
...song pluggers and sidewalk player pianos, whose invisible hands held passersby enthralled with their fascinatin' rhythms. So young George was only doing what came naturally when, at age 18, he sat down to cut a piano roll of his first published song, a frisky ditty called When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em...
...producers. The rappers and musicians collectively count as one more. Add 'em...