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...property crime rates are high because the opportunities are high.” Cambridge Police Department spokesperson Frank T. Pasquerello said the decline in the number of crimes is not due to a change in policy and that the reason for the change is “difficult to explain,” although he suggested that a difference in the distribution of police officers could be responsible. “If you saturate an area with ten officers, you’ll naturally have a high arrest rate, whereas if you only have two officers, the number won?...
...personal lives-it depresses me-and I don't want to see references to myself," he says. "As a consequence, I'm sometimes out of it on things." This is a far cry from the man who, on mtv, did a hysterical impression of Michael Jackson trying to explain his behavior toward children during the Martin Bashir interview...
...players needed stickum, and the TV production was clumsy. Worst of all, the XFL didn't have any off-field story to tell. As for miking the players, it quickly became clear why no one has ever tried this before. Listening to running back Rod Smart try to explain why the name on the back of his jersey read HE HATE ME made one long for a Bush campaign speech...
...third month on the job, the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is visiting with Harvard’s economists to explain his decision to move forward with the transplantation of the Fine Arts Library into Littauer, a project that will cost the University at least $11.5 million and forestall economists’ desired renovations of the aging building for at least a decade...
...Politically, the Administration may be acting too clever by half. Perhaps the outrage on the right will pass, and the case will slip unnoticed into the books. But the last thing Bush needs right now is to try and explain to an already disillusioned Republican base why he's opposing the death penalty for a convicted immigrant murderer on orders from a bunch of judges in The Netherlands. If he hasn't already, this might make more Americans think twice about the wisdom of ever-expanding presidential power...