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...doubt that Bratton is responsible for any of New York's crime drop. "It's like trying to take credit for an eclipse," says former New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. Others are watching Bratton with mouths agape. "I've never seen anything like it," says University of Maryland criminologist Lawrence Sherman, who has studied 30 police departments in the past 25 years. "Police chiefs routinely say, 'Don't expect us to bring down crime, because we don't control its causes. But Bratton says just the opposite. It's the most focused crime-reduction effort I've seen...
...themselves out from the "Blizzard of '96," another snowstorm is bearing down on the region, threatening to further slow cleanup efforts of the storm that has paralyzed much of the east. Starting sometime Friday, forecasters are calling for up to 2 feet of snow in parts of western Maryland, with at least several inches predicted for most of the coast. TIME Daily'sspecial coverageincludes reports from the National Weather Service and TIME correspondents in RealAudio, plus a look behind the weather and select links to other Web resources.SNOWJACKED!If New Yorkers drank as one from the cup of human kindness...
...oblivious to the needs and common-sense wisdom of those of us who do the real work of this great nation: meeting payrolls, raising families, giving to charity and shooting the occasional spotted owl--all activities that were completely unknown to me and my neighbors back in Chevy Chase, Maryland. True, I haven't actually seen a spotted owl yet, even though I've already been living in the Pacific Northwest for more than 72 hours. They clearly don't exist. Which just goes to show how ridiculous it is for Beltway busybodies to interfere in matters they obviously know...
Meeting at a quiet conference center on Maryland's Eastern Shore, negotiators for Israel and Syria held informal discussions with U.S. State Department officials in an attempt to restart the peace dialogue. The talks had collapsed six months...
...Syrian and Israeli negotiators will resume peace talks brokered by the United States in eastern Maryland on Wednesday. TIME's Jamil Hamad is skeptical that the talks will yield real progress on the most contentious issue, control of the Golan Heights: "I don't think these negotiations will produce anything of serious consequence. The problem is with the Syrian ruling elite who are concerned about their place in history. This is an obsession among this group, which is headed by Assad. They are afraid of being called traitors for talking with the Israelis. Assad's dilemma is that he does...