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...excused the actions of Giuliani and the NYPD because of the "good" that has occurred during Giuliani's tenure as mayor. Supporters cite the falling crime rate and increased tourism revenues as ends that justify the invasive undercover police operations that ostensibly cleaned up the city. Crime, however, has fallen dramatically nationwide, often in cities whose police made no consistent effort to reduce crime. As the community-oriented actions of the Boston police have shown, law enforcers can fight drug crime without resorting to undercover operations that infringe on people's civil rights...
...baseball fallen? Consider this. The most dramatic event in baseball is the grand slam, an event so rare that the all-time grand-slam king, Lou Gehrig, hit only 23 in his entire career. There were 150,000 games played in the 20th century; in only nine did anyone hit two grand slams in a game. There were more than 1.3 million innings played; in not one did any player hit two in the same inning...
...Thirty states have passed Defense of Marriage Acts expressly refusing to recognize same-sex unions approved elsewhere. But gay-rights advocates believe other states will eventually follow Vermont's lead. "People will see," says Peg Byron of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, "that the sky has not fallen in Vermont when families are respected this...
Thursday will be a turning point in the Harvard experience for the Class of 2003. They will see how the dice have fallen--whether they can gloat about a new home in Adams, say, or shuffle along, disgruntled, wondering how long until they understand the shuttle schedule...
...flurry of activity caused the boys and girls on Wall Street--all excellent math students--to raise Edison's grade. Its stock, which had fallen below $13 a share since going public at $18 last November, jumped $5.75 last week to close...