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...curb the violence, the Chicago Housing Authority has begun to enforce a 20-year-old rule forbidding tenants to keep guns on its premises. Since 1988, when Vincent Lane was named C.H.A. chairman, Operation Clean Sweep has sent teams of police and housing-authority guards to conduct surprise searches for weapons, drugs and illegal residents in project buildings. In 1989 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp praised Clean Sweep as a "model for the rest of the country." The operation has posted impressive results so far: the police confiscated 817 weapons last year and 214 in the first...
...N.R.A.'s protest has infuriated Chicago's housing officials. C.H.A. chairman Lane calls the N.R.A.'s protest an "intrusion on public-housing residents. Clearly they are not the N.R.A.'s constituency. Eighty percent of the residents are single mothers, with children, on welfare. I can tell you they are not out hunting pheasant or taking target practice. The only use of weapons in the housing projects is for negative reasons." And Ira Harris, chief of the housing police, blisters the N.R.A. for attempting to focus the debate on the question of race. Says he: "They have never cared about black...
Henikoff and deLone, who have competed as a Rair for three years now, delivered a point in almost every match. Last season, Henikoff and deLone amassed a 25-9 record, compared to 10-5 in 1990. Although Boston College's Jennifer Lane and Pam Piorkowski edged cut the Harvard duo for the final Eastern doubles position at the NCAA tournament, Henikoff and deLone's strong play this year earned them a number-35 ranking...
...seems that no one has a perfect career. Not Bo Jackson. Not Lane McDonald. And not five-time All-America runner Suzanne Jones...
...made a more seemly Proposal, exempli gratia, "HARVARD CLOTHED COLD DIVESEICURE," he might have found Favour. But ye Fellowe hath shewn scaree ye Witts of an Yalie. So in disgust say wee: ye Figge of Spaine la Goodbody Lane! Of politickal Rectitude his is a mind devoide. Verily, wee doth suspect him of consorting with Jacobites and diverse other dangerous Radicals, gainst which wee must all watch and warde most vigillantly...