Word: informers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system needs to drastically improve before the crime problem can be solved. I've told many of my tutees about my ambitions of one day becoming a prosecutor. Most of them laugh and ask, "Oh, so you would be the one locking me up?" Ironically, this tutoring experience helped inform my career ambitions. I believe in our criminal justice system; however, locking up thousands of criminals without looking back solves nothing. Prisons need tutoring, substance abuse and personal health programs in order to help rehabilitate criminals...
...TIME matured, it began to place more emphasis on reporting than on these prejudices. Nevertheless, there are certain prejudices--perhaps it's best to call them values--in the original prospectus that still inform TIME's journalism...
...inform your readers that in my last book [The Doors of Perception], I "prescribe mescaline, a derivative of peyote, for all mankind as an alternative to cocktails." Snappiness, alas, is apt to be in inverse ratio to accuracy. In actual fact, I did not prescribe mescaline for all mankind. I merely suggested that it might be a good thing if psychologists, sociologists and pharmacologists were to get together and discuss the problem of a satisfactory drug for general consumption. Mescaline, I said, would not do. But a chemical possessing the merits of mescaline without its drawbacks would certainly be preferable...
Tales of blocking deceit abound. According to one pair of bitter female first-years, they were assured spots in a coveted blocking group months ago. They had not even thought about blocking until this past Sunday--when the blocking group chiefs arrived in person at their rooms to inform them that they had been...
...mail was sent to all HBS students to inform them of the robbery yesterday morning, according to James E. Asner '68, a spokesperson...