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...idea that Arafat would round up terror suspects on his side of the line while the Israelis would keep their own forces on theirs is, after all, an Oslo principle. But Oslo looks like so much history, now. And the Israelis and Palestinians may already be into a low-level state of war, with potentially catastrophic consequences...
...make matters worse, as the crack epidemic began in the 1980s, harried cops had no time to construct elaborate criminal profiles. Simple ones would suffice. In 1983 the Illinois state police began targeting cocaine couriers in and around Chicago. Going after low-level couriers is a shockingly inefficient way to fight drugs, but coke was spreading around the city quickly, and politicians demanded action. Most of the couriers the state police initially caught were young Hispanic men who, when questioned during traffic stops, didn't have a good answer about where they were going...
After this month’s completion of a year-long review of low-level professional jobs, the University has changed the status of approximately 700 Harvard employees so that they are now eligible to earn overtime pay. As part of these changes many of these employees are also now eligible to become union members...
...Across the Atlantic, the FBI waited. In Philadelphia a low-level bureaucrat named Richard DiBenedetto dangled, weightless with anticipation. For 16 years, across five countries, the Philadelphia district attorney's fugitive-and-extradition chief had hunted the man called Mallon with an obsession that would have impressed Captain Ahab. His name was not Eugene Mallon, as he had conned the French villagers into believing. Nor was he a British writer who had settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early...
...first time since The Exodus, professional baseball has returned. The New York Mets recently moved their Single-A minor league affiliate to a new Coney Island facility and renamed it the Brooklyn Cyclones. Memories of the Dodgers have prompted an incredibly warm reception for the low-level club. Three-fourths of the season sold out in three weeks. Cyclones merchandise is flying off shelves all over the region. Brooklyn fans are calling up local sports radio programs to curse the name of Walter O’Malley, the Dodgers owner who orchestrated the infamous move. The Borough of Churches seems...