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...trends have done their work, and the violent-crime rates have fallen dramatically. Yet the unease remains--correctly, some scholars think. American crime rates still dwarf those of other industrial democracies. Moreover, in 1995, the percentage of murders committed by strangers was at a startling rate of 55%. Jack Levin, director of the Program for the Study for Violence at Northeastern University, notes that fear responds to crime quality as well as quantity. "It's the large body counts," he says, "it's the fact that more strangers are [dying] on a random basis; it's 12-year-old boys...
...uncovered evidence of "purposeful erasures" on the recordings. Okula said that additional charges may be brought against Richard Lundwall, the Texaco executive who originally made the tapes public, if it can be shown that he was responsible for the suspected deletions. Neither Okula nor Lundwall's attorney, Ethan Levin-Epstein, would comment on which portions of the tape may have been tampered with. After the tapes were made public last year, Texaco settled a race discrimination case for a record $176 million, the largest settlement of its kind in U.S. history, and subjected itself to workplace monitoring for racial sensitivity...
...recorded digital file before releasing any cash. Thanks to the iris's "fraud-proof" reliability, NCR and Sensar predict that banks will soon be selling everything from airline tickets to insurance policies through the local ATM. Sadly the innovation comes too late to save the life of Jonathan Levin, son of Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin, who was murdered several weeks ago by thieves who wanted his PIN number so that they could hit his bank account...
...metallic gold light of New York's Park Avenue Synagogue, the students approach Jonathan Levin's burnished casket, cluster for a moment, then take their seats. Over 250 come, black and Latino students from the William H. Taft High School in the South Bronx, where Jonathan taught English. The school has a history of assaults and violence; in 1994, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sent a dozen policemen to patrol the surrounding streets...
These are the kids he loved and knew how to teach, and it is they--among the many hundreds of distinguished and powerful people who have come to honor the son of Time Warner's CEO, Gerald Levin--who speak for his worth. Jonathan, 31, was murdered last week in his home. For his family the grief is personal, unbearable. For his students the loss is nearly as great. That one of the two accused killers turns out to be a former student provides an especially mindless end for a man whose work concerned reason and learning. He was tortured...