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...cast for two weeks. As the nationals approached last month, Kwan still had not resumed her full training schedule. After a particularly frustrating practice session around Christmas, she asked Carroll, "Why is this happening to me?" And if physical pain was a burden, the psychological stresses were even graver. Self-doubt can never be truly exorcised, and on the eve of what would be a remarkable reconquest of the national title, Kwan was anxious. "I wasn't skating the greatest," she said. "I think I did one clean long [program] before the competition, and I thought, 'How am I going...
That same afternoon another Jackson Township boy had far graver matters on his mind. From August to December last year, Sam Manzie, 15, had allegedly been involved in a sexual relationship with 43-year-old Stephen Simmons of Holbrook, N.Y., a convicted pederast whom Manzie had met over the Internet. Since late August, though, Manzie, with the consent of his parents, had been assisting New Jersey prosecutors in an effort to build a criminal case against Simmons for sexual abuse. Manzie kept up phone contact with Simmons so their conversations could be taped. Three weekends ago, however, the boy took...
...country is a mosaic of backwardness and new thinking, of worship of Mammon and nostalgia for Mao. Hong Kong poses no graver threat to the powers in Beijing than homegrown forces already at work; the embrace of individual enterprise has forever undermined the basic tenets of communism. The pace and uncertainty of this unique transition frighten as many Chinese as they embolden. Whatever the Chinese are on the way to becoming, they offer this counsel: Naixin. Patience. Xuyao shijian. It takes time...
Netanyahu's problems are potentially graver within his own ruling coalition. Even some Likud leaders were visibly cool about supporting Netanyahu in the days immediately following the police report. "He is getting very little backing from his own party," says Gadi Wolfsfeld of Hebrew University, "because he hurt so many people...
...offenders. This quality of life campaign tested a principle that Giuliani and Bratton had believed for years: the "Broken Windows" theory, first put forth in 1982 by criminologists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, who argued that a city that tolerates minor violations creates a disorderly environment encouraging graver crimes. Sure enough, as arrests for small offenses rocketed, New York's streets became notably safer. It was these small arrests for such crimes as aggressive panhandling and minor theft, police believe, that have lowered New York to 63rd in homicides per 100,000 people. One reason: the greater vigilance...