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...night scores of flashy cars and motorcycles cruise in front of the local Hardee's in a scene that looks like the gulf version of American Graffiti. A dozen teenagers break-dance to booming rap music that pours out of the open hatchback of a silver Renault 5 with a U.S. flag painted on its rear window. Yet even this simple celebration brings a reminder of the tension between tradition and change that is testing Kuwait. Passing the scene, a fundamentalist youth mutters, "Islam doesn't need discotheques...
...enforcing most effectively. Many academic experts believe the changes fostered conditions that contributed to the sharply higher crime rates of the past three decades. A spate of scholarly studies has demonstrated that the offenses to quality of ) life that police now routinely overlook -- such things as loud radios, graffiti and aggressive panhandling -- create an atmosphere in which more serious crime is likely to occur. Those petty disturbances are the ones that trouble and frighten ordinary citizens the most. In turn, their fear acts like an acid to disintegrate neighborhood ties. It leads citizens to shun the streets and abdicate responsibility...
...Physical Graffiti with 40 Thieves at the Channel...
With principals and teachers pushing parents' concerns out of the limelight, the conclusion is as plain as graffiti on playground equipment. The educational establishment in Chicago does not want reform; it wants to protect its budget and its constituents' job security...
Dumas is a 100% black inner-city public school, the kind of place that has an appalling reputation. By all rights, things should be just as bleak inside the scarred cinder-block building as outside. But there are no graffiti on the walls, no violence in the halls. Attendance thus far this year is an astonishing 94%, and there are 70 students on a waiting list to get in. "Black parents who bused their kids are coming home," says Peters, 52, a no-nonsense veteran educator who will begin her seventh year on the job in January...