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...APPLAUD YOUR ARTICLE ATTRIBUTING some of the drop in reported crime to more effective policing [CRIME, Jan. 15], but we must not gloss over the potentially dangerous differences in the approaches used in various cities. Creative problem solving is only half of what is required to ensure public safety. Police departments must also engage the community as full-fledged partners in identifying, prioritizing and solving problems--or run the serious risk of increasing the threat of civil unrest. Involving the community each step of the way in neighborhood-based problem-solving efforts is indeed a slower process, but then...
...conclusion that the public didn't need or deserve this dimly-lit tribute to pain and suffering. Artistic license does not abrogate social responsibility, and it's simply wrong to make money by playing to people's worst instincts. This does not mean that we should ignore or gloss over our collective problems and concerns, or seek a return to the repressive innocence embodied by the 1950s. But neither should we let the pendulum swing entirely in the other direction to a state of moral anarchy in which nothing, including human life, has inherent value...
...raids against villages throughout the republic. The bomb attacks in Grozny came in response to the endorsement by Zavgayev and his tame parliament of a Russian plan for elections Dec. 17 for a new Chechen leader. For the Chechens, the election plan is merely an attempt to give a gloss of democratic legitimacy to Moscow's rule. "No election will be held until the last Russian invader has left," declares a spokesman for rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev, who conducts his guerrilla campaign from a mountain hideout...
...more irritating is Wattenberg's sloppy thinking. The author claims, for instance, that while quotas trouble many Americans, the average voter is not all that concerned with race. His basis for this? Discussions in two focus groups in which 1 of 19 participants was black. And his readiness to gloss over some of the Republicans' rhetorical excesses is troubling. The 1988 Bush campaign's Willie Horton attack ads, for instance, raised a valid issue, he says, and were not racist. Writes Wattenberg: "If he had been white and looked like a thug--which Horton did--his photograph would [still] have...
Since Buchanan's campaign began to pick up steam over the summer, the mimicry has become more obvious. On July 11, Buchanan pledged in Des Moines, Iowa, to reduce "the confiscatory inheritance tax now imposed on American family farms"--a populist-sounding gloss on a measure that would benefit those who inherit between $600,000 and $5 million. Four days later, Gramm promised on CNN "to do something about inheritance taxes, which are now confiscatory." In September, Buchanan called for a rollback of congressional pensions in the wake of Senator Bob Packwood's resignation, only to be echoed by Lamar...