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From there, Clinton pleaded passionately for treatment on demand and drug education for all. Under Bush, two-thirds of the $13.1 billion federal antidrug budget went for interdiction and law enforcement, only one-third for education and treatment. "I'll invert that ratio," Clinton promised...
...consequences except for gold and silver. And the meaning of the Olympics is that it puts things in a different perspective, in which sprites become giants and heroes become people once again. But the malign calculation of the bomb gave all such shifts a deadly tilt, as if to invert the Shakespearean affirmation: one touch of malice makes the whole world spin...
...Pudding's annual show should not be read, in spite of various justificatory claims, as an attempt to invert the hierarchy or as an assault on the social order. These claims are particularly egregious because here at Harvard people who wield, or will wield, considerable power on popular culture or public policy, too often merely play at nonconformity, gestures often rendered meaningless simply by virtue of their presence here...
...cities. It's now down to 50%. The robbery arrest rate is down to 24%; it's 13% for burglaries." Why? Well, for one thing, there are currently 3.3 violent crimes committed for every police officer, exactly opposite the ratio of 25 years ago. "Until you invert that balance," says Walinsky, "you can forget about it. Until you catch 'em, you can't even think about what to do with...
...study of the possibility of legalizing illicit drugs. Clinton's knee-jerk, anti-intellectual response, which can be fairly summarized as "No way, nohow; not now, not ever," is bad enough. Worse is his silent acceptance of policies that shortchange drug treatment, an abandonment of his pledge to invert the ratio of funds spent on drug interdiction vs. treatment, a split that continues to allocate $13.1 billion of federal antidrug money in favor of law enforcement by more than 2 to 1. It's true that "druggies don't vote," as a senior Administration official says, and also that...