Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nervous giggle. We are reminded of our grandmothers, who were prohibited from emigrating to this country and then kidnapped for slave prostitution houses in San Francisco. We are reminded of our grandfathers who were recruited into the brutal jobs of agriculture, mining, and railroad construction--only to suffer lynchings, mob attacks, and discriminatory legislation. We are reminded of the price that our parents and grandparents had to pay in order for us to be admitted into the "democracy" of Harvard/Radcliffe. And we are angry that so few members of the Harvard community either up on stage or in the audience...
Leaving the Capitol, Reagan posed on the Northeast Steps with the 1981 March of Dimes poster child, Missy Jablonski of St. Louis, sweeping the six-year-old up into his arms to the delight of a mob of professional and amateur photographers who filled the stairwell. Then he rode to the nearby glass-and-concrete headquarters of the Teamsters Union, the nation's largest and one of the rare labor organizations to back his candidacy...
What Jake saw in a nostalgic nightmare, Martin Scorsese has put on the screen. The Bronx Bull butted his way to the middleweight championship of boxing in 1949. He "fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times I got diabetes." He played rope-a-dope with the Mob. He ballooned to 210 lbs. (from 160) within a year of retiring, was convicted on a morals charge involving a 14-year-old prostitute, and made a comeback of sorts as a road-show Rocky Graziano. Now 59, this sacred monster is canonized and cauterized in Scorsese's searing black and white...
...Chicago program is one of a hundred or so set up across the U.S. in recent years in response to studies showing that a relatively few hard-core criminals are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime. The first was New York City's major offense bureau (MOB) in The Bronx district attorney's office, which began in 1973. MOB'S success inspired the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) to invest $30 million of federal money in 50 similar projects over a five-year period starting in 1975. Since then, 10,000 criminals who committed a total...
High conviction rates and long sentences are not the only features that set such programs apart; they are also swift. Cases in MOB move from arraignment to disposition in an average of 97 days, compared with around 400 days in the regular court system. One reason is the policy of assigning a prosecutor to each case for its duration instead of having it passed from one to another at various stages. Some programs, like Chicago's, act more quickly because the judges' case loads are lighter. Also important is their refusal to abide delays. Judge Thomas Fitzgerald...