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...Boom!" Leroy Hayes describes sitting in his seventh-grade English class at Philadelphia's Shoemaker Middle School when he heard the explosion. It was startling but not necessarily surprising, he says. Crazy stuff happened all the time at Shoemaker. Once, he recalls, a student urinated into a soda bottle during class and threw it in a math instructor's face. Crazy stuff. After hearing the big explosion, Hayes and his friends rushed out of the room and discovered that someone had set off fireworks in the corridor. "The school was in chaos," the 11th-grader remembers of the 2005 incident...
...Data-Processing Factor In interviews with police chiefs across the country, TIME heard the same story again and again. It is the saga of a revolution in law enforcement, a new way of battling the bad guys, and it begins, at least in some tellings, with a colorful New York City transit cop named Jack Maple. He worked the subways back when the city was averaging four, five, almost six murders a day, and even though the experts informed him that crime was inseparable from such "root causes" as poverty and despair, Maple developed a theory that the key cause...
Kelly N. Bodwin ’11, a current HoCo co-chair, said she personally agreed with the idea of not using DeWolfe to house Kirkland residents, though she said she has only heard rumors from tutors about ending DeWolfe housing...
Freshman year was “really funny,” Hughes recalls. Though many of her classmates at Harvard heard that there was a former Olympian among them, they did not know that the rumored individual was actually her. Since then, Hughes has emerged from obscurity as a stunningly accomplished athlete who is grounded in her life as a Harvard student...
...This is hardly the first time the world has heard renaissance rhetoric about Haiti, a republic long crippled by chronic political and natural catastrophes. And experts say it will take far more than just new agribusiness, especially housing and manufacturing, to make the relocation plan anything besides a pipe dream. But Bellerive - who along with the head of state, President René Préval, last week hosted Nicolas Sarkozy in the first ever visit to Haiti by a French President - sees an unusual air of cooperation between Haiti and the international community now. That, he hopes, will create "more...