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Charleston, West Virginia -- In March a knife-wielding mugger accepted a $300 check when his victim could only produce $12.50 in cash. The thief was arrested the next day trying to cash the check...
...should be looking for the racism gene, or the homophobia gene. Goodwin was right; the inner city is a jungle. But so are the corporation, the newsroom and the White House staff. The language of trial lawyers or bond traders in full testosterone fury is as bloodcurdling as any mugger's. When it comes to social carnage, the convenience-store stickup can't compare with a leveraged buyout, trickling-down unemployment, depression, anger, alcoholism, divorce, domestic abuse and addiction. I'd like to see white men with suspenders and cellular phones tested for the greed gene. The genomes of presidential...
...middle-aged white man as afraid as anyone else of being not quite alone on a dark New York City street, and I've stared into the stone-cold eyes of a mugger while he told me, "It's just you and me." When you hear those words, it's too late to fight the war on crime. The rush to define criminals as sick obscures an uncomfortable truth about our society, which is that crime and violence often pay handsomely. Just ask the conquistadores, the Menendez brothers, Oliver North or the comfortable and respected descendants of bootleggers and slaveholders...
...writers have to get out of the house once in a while. The last time Updike cut loose abroad was about 15 years ago, when he used an African setting for The Coup. Now he retells the Tristan and Isolde legend as a love story about a black teenage mugger from the hillside slums of Rio and an upper-class white girl with a hunger for forbidden experience...
...schemes the Senate has already passed (the House has yet to act), a violent felon could be sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole if he committed a third, federal crime following two previous state convictions. As currently written, three strikes could work like this: a mugger shoves a woman while snatching her purse; strike one. The same criminal stiff-arms a store clerk while swiping a coat; strike two. Twenty years later (there are no intervals in either proposal), the same person punches a federal official, or assaults someone in a national park; strike three...