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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even harder. First, he worked with the Newark business community to raise $3.2 million to install more than 100 surveillance cameras throughout the city. The technology led to 109 arrests in its first 16 months of operation. And against the advice of his staff, the police director, even his mother, Booker started personally patrolling the streets with his security team until 4 in the morning. "At some point, I just told him, 'Cory, you keep me on my knees,'" says Carolyn Booker, the mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Cory Booker Likes Being Mayor of Newark | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...work with at Henry Street have many ideas about what makes a college essay, and they are usually less comfortable. One of them, P, who came here with his brothers from Panama just two years ago, wrote about his parents’ divorce and his abandonment by his mother. P and many of his peers have never written about their tumultuous personal lives before. Their essays serve many functions that mine didn’t: venting, confiding, and forgiving...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Personal Statements | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...crime, there is nothing you can say to a cop that makes it legal for him to arrest you. You can tell him he is stupid, you can tell him he is ugly, you can call him racist, you can say anything you might feel like saying about his mother. He has taken an oath to listen to all of that and ignore it. That is the real teachable moment here: cops are paid to be professionals, but even the best of them are human and can make stupid mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: The Stupidity of the Gates Arrest | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

Tiahrt, Rep. Todd • speculation by that Obama's mother might have aborted him if the government paid for abortions in 1961 is posted on official Web site of House Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

Much of the argument is highly technical. Neither the complainant's nor the defendant's mother tongue is English. Observers without legal training might be forgiven for thinking the attorneys were also speaking a foreign language. Here's Popplewell again: "The amended pleadings are put forward in substitution to those that are currently pleaded and are abandoned ... On the amended pleading what is said is either 1995 rights, 1996 rights or if either of those is of no legal effect, restitution rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Oligarchs Seek English Justice | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

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