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Unhappily, all this seems remote. Only a fraction of 1% of the nation's entire crime-control budget is even spent on research. Beyond that, the system is mired in bureaucratic inertia and fiddle-faddle. Many exciting ideas are never institutionalized, the same problem that impedes school reform. In 1965, Psychologist J. Douglas Grant and his wife put 18 hardened California inmates (half of them armed robbers) to work studying how to salvage their peers. They blossomed into impressive researchers, skilled at statistics, interviews, proposal writing and the rest. Today, 13 of Grant's men are doing the same work...
...serious threat to individual civil rights. It should be added, though, that the House and Senate are often less than candid about their own operations. The requirement that politicians report their campaign spending, for example, is honored more in the breach than the observance, since only a tiny fraction of funds actually spent in campaigns is noted for the public record. According to law, Senators are required to release public reports only on fees received for speeches, articles and television appearances. But detailed information on their business interests and outside income is kept secret, in sealed envelopes available only...
...proposed Industrial Relations Reform Act, which comes up for debate this week in the House of Commons. The Carr bill, so named for Employment and Productivity Minister Robert Carr, aims at legally preventing wildcat work stoppages. Though the bill is anathema to many union members, only a fraction of Britain's 24 million organized workers left their jobs in protest...
After we had been filming for a week, military authorities from near-by towns ordered the village policemen to confiscate our film until we acquired a permit. We gave him a fraction of the film we had taken, and I went off on a Kafkaesque tour in search of a permit for the film...
...Corelli, Alexander Schneider, who conducted, doubled as principal violin in the concertino. The work went along smoothly, indeed brilliantly, but the wisdom of Mr. Schneider's decision to combine roles is dubious. Unfortunately, the orchestra had a tendency, especially in the first movement, to enter just a fraction of a beat behind him, a problem which would not have cropped up if he were not playing. Nonetheless, it was a fine performance, with especially good work by cellist Corinne Flavin and violinist Robert Brink...