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...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...
...that the U.S. military may well be, to use the classic military terminology, fubar, or screwed up beyond all recognition. Some forms of abuse--like sexual harassment--have been defined by the law as criminal. But the soldier who turns on his comrades with savage intent commits a far graver category of crime. Whether he shoots them in the back or assaults their bodies with his own, he's confusing his fellow soldiers with the foe--and the word for this is treason. When a woman can't trust her drill sergeant, neither can the nation...
Baer agreed, and the two men made a heated case. Fast food was part of Clinton's bad old image: the burger-munching, sax-playing juvenile-in-chief. That Clinton had gradually given way to a grayer and graver President, with an optimism that seemed more deeply felt. Penn and Baer were aghast that Clinton might take a step backward. Sperling thought this message business was getting just a bit out of hand...
Washington's single-minded obsession with Saddam has provoked some allies to think about a rift in the making potentially graver than the latest hubbub. Even in Kuwait, where eagerness to unseat Saddam runs high, officials wonder if the U.S. is dangerously ignoring the region's other and perhaps greater threat: Iran. "Seventy percent of Kuwaitis just want to get rid of Saddam," says Mohammed al-Qadiri, a Kuwaiti businessman and former government official. "But the rest worry that if he goes, Iran will step in, and that, my friend, is real trouble." Some of Kuwait's top leaders have...
...affirming that it will survive and prosper. Not everyone is so sanguine. Many Russians and Western experts are deeply concerned that regardless of what he says, Yeltsin may have lost his taste for transforming the economy and may even reverse some of the advances he has made. An even graver worry is that Communist Party chief Gennadi Zyuganov will win the election and roll the economy back to state-controlled socialism. "The people who said the reforms could never be reversed are coming up short," says Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Harvard Russian Research Center. "At the moment, everyone...