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These are the kinds of crimes American cities expected never to see in high numbers again. In the 1990s police departments nationwide began applying the so-called broken-windows theory: arrest the bad guys for minor offenses, and they wouldn't be around to commit more serious ones. This zero-tolerance approach--combined with more cops on the street to enforce it, a strong economy and a fortuitous demographic change that reduced the population of young men who typically cause the most trouble--lowered the rates of murder, robbery and rape for 10 consecutive years. Until last year. Not only...
...think the success of Hannah Montana is due solely to Cyrus' charm and talent, you've been watching too many Disney movies. Like her predecessors, Hillary Duff (Lizzie McGuire) and Raven Symone (That's So Raven), the twangy-voiced Cyrus was plucked from the ranks of minor actors by Disney and anointed to be its newest star. While she certainly has musical talent and charisma, she's also the product of a winning formula for creating shows that tweens love and make stars out of its leads...
...depend on their long and close relationship with each animal to read their moods. Kasatka is likely to undergo a lengthy period of evaluation, with trainers working backward with records from weeks and months past to figure out what may have led to this incident. (She'd had a minor run-in with Peters about nine years ago.) So while Kasatka is back onstage, her trainers will direct her performances from outside the water for now. (See a Q&A with Jean-Michel Cousteau on killer whales...
...which states that “the more immediate lead-up to HRG&SP’s birth was due in part to a group of students who were already performing the operettas regularly, but without a fixed home.”The discrepancy may seem minor, but a statement by a founding member suggests otherwise. Wayne C. Paton ’56, one of original members who obtained the charter, writes in an e-mail that a book by former professor of music Elliot Forbes ’40, now deceased, has created a legacy of confusion...
...season with three shutouts. Senior Siddarth Suchde led the Crimson with an impressive 9-1, 9-3, 9-2 effort at the first position, during which the Big Green team members cheered when their top player managed to win a point. Captain Ilan Oren, playing through minor injuries, had one of the night’s more competitive matches, eventually winning 10-8, 9-0, 5-9, 9-6. Senior Garnett Booth won without giving up a point in a 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 sweep. Senior Mihir Sheth, after being hit in the hand with his opponent?...