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Some experts also believe Giuliani's crackdown on petty offenders, like squeegeemen who hassle motorists for change at stoplights or graffiti artists who vandalize the subways, has worked to ease more serious offenses. Explains criminologist Lawrence Sherman of the University of Maryland: "Ironically, the best way to reduce murder may be to make lots of arrests for spitting on the sidewalk, simply as a way to deter criminals from carrying concealed weapons." Indeed, gun homicides in New York have declined 41% from the 1994 rate...
Larson's interest in guns and gun control was aroused in the early 1980s by a series of teenage drive-by shootings that rocked the quiet neighborhood in Maryland where he lives with his wife, three young daughters and a goldfish named Joey...
...Russia, where his father, an engineer, was designing the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad for Czar Nicholas I. Doubtless the Russian fixation on rank impressed him; in any case, he began to insist quite early in his life that he was no prosaic Yankee, but a Southern gentleman from Baltimore, Maryland. He enrolled at West Point, but was flunked in 1854 for his cluelessness about chemistry. "Had silicon been a gas," he would say later, "I would have been a major-general...
...begin to cover-we work opposite shifts. Our parents have even taken over our car payments. We often marvel at the fact that two well-educated white-collar workers like ourselves are worse off financially than most of our less-schooled, blue-collar neighbors. ANA M. WAGNER-HOFFMAN Germantown, Maryland Via America Online...
...president of marketing for the Bulls. Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the N.F.L.'s Washington Redskins, is so enamored of luxury boxes--and the Washington lobbyists are so eager to buy them--that the joke around the Beltway is that the new Redskins stadium, which is planned for Landover, Maryland, will have 850 luxury boxes, with a handful of standing-room spaces left over for normal people...