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...from those same beasts. Yet forced by the heat and humidity to shed our cowhides and lambskin loincloths during hotter weather, it's no wonder we are stripped of a little humanity and civilization every Memorial Day. The summertime German invasion of Poland, the Watergate break-in and Woodstock III amply demonstrate this unleathered animalizing tendency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...been going up as far back as I have been able to get grading data, all the way back to the 1920s. The accompanying chart shows the percentage of the class in “Dean’s List”—Groups I, II and III together, a reasonable measure of overall grading standards. Most of these data are taken from the annual reports of the president and the deans, and are on the public record...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, HARRY R. LEWIS | Title: The Racial Theory of Grade Inflation | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...between the police and the black community, even though the force has become increasingly black," says Scott Johnson, former city manager and current Cincinnati resident. "The problem is, there are no blacks in the upper echelons of the force." To change the police culture, says the Rev. Damon Lynch III, head of the Cincinnati Black United Front, "some people need to be fired. If nothing changes, nothing will change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nights Of Rage | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...mail from Lauren Zalaznick, senior vice president of original programming at VH1. She was forwarding notes she had written on the eighth version of my script, most of which were smart and helpful. It also had these comments she forgot to delete: "acts II and III are bizarrely rough--amateurish, not funny, awful structure"; "i'm actually shocked that anyone thinks it's good enough to turn in as a first draft, let alone a finished one"; "makes me all the more sure that joel cannot write this series"; "I think we should find out who edits joel's column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through The E-Mail Looking Glass | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...easy way to get dealers arrested. They say that maybe 10 times, they caught dealers and then called the N.O.P.D. or a local agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to arrest them. "But no one would ever come get these people," laments a club employee. George Cazenavette III, who runs the DEA's New Orleans office, says he can't comment on that charge. N.O.P.D. commanders deny they ever ignored calls from the State Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecstasy Crackdown | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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