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...things have changed. Somewhere along the line we’ve reached a scenario of red-faced middle-aged men screaming and spitting at their senators about Hitler and death panels. Now we’ve heard that a public option, once seen as a central, if not critical, piece of true health-care reform, might be “off the table,” replaced by non-profit cooperatives that studies have shown will not effectively lower insurance costs, supposedly their biggest selling point. In fact, the public option has been sidelined by many as a far-left...
...Nearly two-thirds of the program is run like a Harvard improvisation show, with skits exploring societal stereotypes about men and women designed to get a laugh out of the excited crowd. With lines like, “He who hesitates masturbates,” “I’m so manly I don’t just have a dick, I am one,” and “Sometimes hot girls in their underwear make my pants a little tight,” the show feels more like a live version of Knocked Up than...
...night was typical of summer backyard get-togethers on the east side of Baltimore. A DJ was spinning favorite tunes. The barbecue grill was fired up. People laughed, children played. The atmosphere at the picnic, which was organized to honor two men who were killed on the streets a year before, was good...
...South Side of Chicago, gangs like the Folks Nations, the Gangster Disciples and others have begun to erode. The power vacuum is being filled by gang subsets, wannabes and factions with weak leadership. "Now you have a lot of renegades, and 70% of the young men are on the defense," explains Tio Hardiman, gang mediation director for CeaseFire, an antiviolence organization that has been replicated in several cities. "So you have shooters all over the place...
...from directives from any formal gang hierarchy, but rather that it is the result of beefs between smaller neighborhood groups that can be started by anything from a kidnapping, as in the Baltimore case, to a simple look of disrespect on a rival's face. A fistfight among young men can escalate into drive-by shootings that elicit identical retribution, finally leading to the slaying of people who may or may not have been involved, including innocent bystanders. Says David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice: "People think they...