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...major reason for Caliguiri's lock on his job is that he has presided over one of the few success stories among cities of the recession-plagued Northeast. Despite high unemployment in the steel industry, corporations have invested $1.5 billion in new office buildings, speeding Pittsburgh's transition from mill town to corporate center. Caliguiri is spending millions more to repair bridges, build water and sewer systems and upgrade housing in the city's older neighborhoods. Predicts the mayor: "Pittsburgh is going to be the first major city in the Northeast to see actual gains in population...
...reflects both an actual increase in crimes and the fact that more than half of the states have passed minimum or mandatory sentencing laws since 1970. The new laws, enacted to placate a public demanding tough sentences, often make little distinction among crimes; for example, judges are forced to lock up shoplifters and forgers along with murderers and armed robbers. Contends Norman Carlson, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons: "The knee-jerk response of many legislators in passing harsher sentencing statutes threatens to overwhelm our corrections system...
...Nathan Zuckerman has made a million dollars with Carnovsky, an ethnic and sexual extravaganza that resembles Portnoy's Complaint. Zuckerman's problem is not sex but a reluctance to indulge in the conventional rewards of his money and fame. Says André Schevitz, his agent: "First you lock yourself away in order to stir up your imagination, now you lock yourself away because you've stirred up theirs...
...boot, already in use in Boston is a metal wheel lock that makes it impossible for a car to be driven until it is unlocked and removed. And it isn't unlocked and removed until parking tickets are paid off. And until a $25, unlocking and removing fee is paid...
...Ugandan soldiers who man dozens of checkpoints in the capital are often indistinguishable from outlaws. Troops routinely rob and harass passersby. Two months ago, a Ugandan company commander, leading his men on a looting expedition, was fatally wounded when a bullet he fired into a door lock ricocheted into his chest. The next day, claiming that the officer had been killed by insurgents, soldiers swooped down on the neighborhood and robbed every home...