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...this cottage industry has exploded. Welcome to the Toon Age of worldwide retailing, an age when Warner's fearsome Tasmanian Devil becomes a cult figure for kids, dads and inner-city gang members; when no little girl feels chic without her Princess Jasmine dress (from the smash Disney film Aladdin); when Paris designer Karl Lagerfeld ornaments the classic Chanel hat with impish Mickey Mouse ears. Hollywood's animated ephemera are Big Business everywhere: in the Disney themelands and at Warner's Six Flags parks, at chains like K Mart and Toys "R" Us, in sports-stadium concession stands (Michael Jordan...
...students in California? Or the Kenyan woman who was robbed by Americans posing as taxi drivers in New York? Or the American who rode a train and then opened automatic fire on Long Island, New York? or the shocking revelations of the dirty cops of New York amid drugs, gang nuisance, murders and various forms of social strife? I think Mr. Gell would use his position more productively to save Americans from themselves... and also do some travelling to become more enlightened...
...houses will be around awhile, and so will the controversy. Lane began the weapon sweeps in 1988, restricted them a year later to cases involving "immediate threat" after negotiating a court-ordered consent decree with the ACLU, then resumed them after armed gang members chased away repair crews dispatched by the housing authority from a project last August. That led to the restraining order that Judge Andersen has turned into an injunction. Lane says he will respect that ruling -- for now. But "if the circumstances that existed two weeks ago, when we heard 300 shots, exist again, I will search...
Barlett and Steele, who are not ideologues of any discernible persuasion, leave the distinct impression that government has begun to function like a gang. According to political science, "the state" is supposed to be a neutral place where various interest groups -- like, say, the rich and the unrich -- meet to work things out, far from the noisy marketplace. Instead, government seems to have become a place where legislators meet lobbyists, to the happy advantage of each. As for being above the marketplace -- even laws are for sale here. When the rich have exhausted all the other evasive tactics, they...
Facing a tough decision pitting personal security against constitutional rights, a federal judge came down on the side of rights, ruling that police must have warrants before searching for guns in Chicago's public-housing developments, which have become gang- and drug-war zones. President Clinton immediately ordered the Justice and Housing departments to develop a constitutionally permissible search policy to capture the guns and help protect residents...