Word: informers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intense scrutiny and understandable suspicion, Carrera managed to assemble 22 girls and boys, ranging in age from 13 to 16, and a smaller group of parents for courses on family life and sex education. "The kids are riddled with mythology about these things. There is a real need to inform," he says. Before long, the youngsters were not only learning but also receiving a range of support services from adults who were willing to make a long-term commitment. "For too many of these kids, adults have disappeared on them," says Carrera, who has remained personally involved with each...
...council's biggest mistake was its failure to inform the student body of its impending vote. The current campus debate, raging in dining halls and dorm rooms, should have contributed to the decision, rather than come after the fact. When the council discussed the finals club resolution earlier this fall, it postered the campus announcing the meeting; ROTC has proven to be as controversial, and students should have been given as much advanced warning...
...pose the question to a white European visiting New York City, and brace yourself for a surprise. He will inform you that black Harlem is one of the city's main attractions; that its 330 years echo with history, beauty and drama; that its imposing, if often scorched, architecture tells tales of the exuberant black metropolis that flourished in the 1920s; that in no other New York City district can you find the vitality and graciousness of Harlem on a , good day. Maybe, too, the foreigner wants to brag to friends back home that he saw Harlem and survived. Sure...
...pioneer architect Charles W. Bolton designed the church as an amphitheater, and for good reason: its pastor was the spell-weaving Adam Clayton Powell Sr. His son won even more fame, first as a preacher there, then as Harlem's first black Congressman. The bold spirits of both men inform the place...
...detract from their evidentiary significance." Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall saw things quite differently. An agent's "reflexive reliance" on a profile, he wrote, is likely to subject "innocent individuals to unwarranted police harassment." Drug-enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Customs Service, insist that drug profiles are meant only to inform and advise agents and that actual arrests depend on the individual professional judgments of officers. Officials deny the documents are stereotypical portraits of disfavored groups. "They're more of a mental checklist," says Harry Myers, chief of DEA's criminal-law section. Others are not so sure. "After 23 years...