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...spring, specifically attributed the spike in violent crime to the “reawakening of the ongoing violence among a small number of gang-involved offenders.”Conflicts between Boston gangs are not being settled quickly and effectively enough, Braga said, due to what he called a lack of support from law enforcement officers, criminal justice agencies, and community-based groups.Christopher Winship, the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology and author of a published paper on Boston’s success at curbing crime in the 1990s, also cited problems with law enforcement officers and community support groups...
...just because I wasn’t listening,” she says. Although obviously popular among students, the University’s laissez-faire attitude towards drugs eventually got the school into hot water. In 1986, then- Secretary of Education William J. Bennett called Harvard’s lack of anti-drug action “unconscionable.”’“What Harvard fails to do,” he said, “others will fail to do.”TAKING THEIR CHANCES In a more recent incident, two Currier House residents...
...recordings. The interests of these students should count at least as much as those of the students who take advantage of lecture recordings to skip class. In the absence of recorded lectures, conscientious students are effectively penalized when they miss class for reasons such as illness. While recordings may lack some of the benefits of live lectures, they far surpass PowerPoint slides and borrowed lecture notes as study aids. Lecture videos have long been available online for some Harvard courses, but audio downloads have an additional advantage for students. As a cheaper alternative to video downloads, audio downloads allow smaller...
Fisher’s motion comes just days after Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith Ryan put a resolution on the same Feb. 28 docket asking the Faculty to vote on whether or not it “continues to lack confidence in the leadership of President Lawrence H. Summers.” Summers lost a similar vote 218–185 last March...
...Obama: I'm pleasantly surprised at how much I got done. I feel like we had some concrete accomplishments? ... disappointments ... I'm surprised at the lack of deliberation in the world's greatest deliberative body. We have press releases passing in the night and floor statements nobody is listening to.?? And the fact that things move so slow. My? last year in the Illinois Senate, I passed 26 bills in a year...