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...em Again...
CRIME IS the most visceral of issues: small wonder that the Right has almost exclusively coopted it. But hip-booted, lock-'em-up demagoguery has hardly stemmed a crime wave that keeps two out of every five citizens behind locked doors after dark. America, surfeited with crime, looks for a real solution. Charles Silberman's Criminal Violence, Crimal Justice strips away the cant, provides the hard facts, and finally makes it possible to think about, instead of react to, the problem of crime...
...populist mold, saw no ideological portent in his victory. He was elected, he said, "not because of what I was, but because of what I was not. I was beholden to no one, backed by no special interests and had no debts." In Iowa, the voters' toss-'em-out mood benefited Conservative Republican Roger Jepsen, who upset Liberal Democrat Dick Clark...
...Elis, still reeling from their 4-1 loss to Harvard in the Ivy championships, flooded their penalty area with blue-shirted booters. "Sure, they pulled 'em all back," said Crimson mentor Bob Scalise, "but we got the ones we needed...
...James Burke from the 9th District hobbles up to the podium and starts talking softly into the microphone. Nobody knows he's up there, or maybe they do, but the dull hum of conversation doesn't subside during Burke's impromptu endorsement speech for King. A real lock 'em up and shoot 'em speech--Burke tells the convention why King should be governor. "Imagine those people selling drugs to our kids in junior high school. We need a man who will deal with these people. Look at the murders--why just during the past week...What are we coming...