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Unlike the police, the prisoners abide by their own codes. Virgil teaches Jimmie that unless he "plays by the rules," he will end up the errand boy of a gang. And the gangs show Jimmie how they treat errand boys by stealing his canteen toiletries and beating...

Author: By Gayle BETH Fenster, | Title: Until Proven Guilty | 10/6/1989 | See Source »

...Innocent Man scrapes by with a few more scars than Jimmie after a gang fight. Though photographers and editors conceal none of the movie's injuries, their beautiful shots foil Jimmie's jail-sentence better than his home life does...

Author: By Gayle BETH Fenster, | Title: Until Proven Guilty | 10/6/1989 | See Source »

...every strip so far has been the passage of Ronald Ann into this Outland. The first strip showed her walking through a door, and all the episodes since have retold that event in a new way. Last Sunday the mouse and the rat kidnapped Ronald Ann in between a gang war and a rabid alleycat. Breathed's attempt to show us the variation possible in any given even is certainly an attempt to deliver modern art to the comic pages...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...President's plan to crack down on such "casual" drug users, like Gitell's call for more aggresive University Police action against drugs, amounts to a massive assault on the privacy of students, for the sake of controlling a drug which generates little specific gang violence and is, according to some scientific evidence, safer than alcohol. Harvard needs to be a critic and conscientious objector, not an enthusiastic recruit. John Rigsby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...drugs to be exorcized from inner cities. But if students want their attitudes to be taken seriously in inner-city communities, they should take an equally bold stand against the casual use of less dangerous drugs. Someone who says it is wrong for a 20-year-old economically disadvantaged gang member to deal crack as a way to earn money, but overlooks a privileged Harvard sophomore who buys and sells hash for his or her personal use, is being hypocritical...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Joining the War on Drugs | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

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