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...Mexico sends its poor north to take jobs illegally, and the U.S. arrests enough of the border crossers to create the illusion that it is enforcing the immigration laws while allowing the great majority to get through. Local lawmen like Jim Elkins and Larry Dever have learned the dance firsthand, and their towns and counties have...
...priests - from places that have many, to places that have fewer. as a bishop, you had to deal with cases of sex abuse by priests. Now you are final arbiter on some of the more difficult cases from around the world. My experience in the dioceses gives me a firsthand perspective from direct contact with the people affected by these cases. You learn the details of what has happened, and how cases can differ from one to another. We have to keep our eye on what justice requires. When Papa Ratzinger welcomed you to the new job, did he have...
...free prescription-grade heroin in a research trial and running a medically supervised injection site--while carefully gathering data on the effects of city policies. At the heart of this experiment is Buxton, a physician-epidemiologist affiliated with the University of British Columbia medical school, who monitors the situation firsthand and meets several times a year with a committee of police, health workers, charities and support groups to collate their reports. "We're looking at the numbers of people affected, hospital utilization, deaths related to drug use and where interventions are needed," she says...
Having seen firsthand what sleep deprivation can do, I'm now making a conscious effort to get more shut-eye. I still don't know why we sleep in the first place, but I have a much better feel for what happens...
Cataclysm usually makes for a teaching moment. Not so with the resignation of Larry Summers.If I hadn’t witnessed it firsthand, I’d say Summers’ ouster had all the makings of one of those storylines in which implausible characters make the plot altogether fantastic and unredeemed.The recent events are a scene lifted from Kafka, where an unthinking chimera called the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seizes upon wrongdoings that few outside the academy would conceive of as wrong and then tenaciously holds on, overseeing the two-year-long persecution of their boss for these...