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...response of politicians to the outcry over racial profiling amounts to a lawmaking jamboree. Congress is considering the End Racial Profiling Act, which would force local police to record the race of everyone subjected to a traffic or pedestrian stop and to punish officers who rely on race when deciding whether to stop someone. Thirteen states and hundreds of localities have enacted legislation designed to reduce or at least study racial profiling. Bills are pending in at least 12 other states. Everyone from Attorney General John Ashcroft, long a conservative on race issues, to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, long...
...Does that mean Operation Pipeline was a total failure? No one worth hearing argues that race should be the only factor in police decision-making, but should race never be part of a criminal profile? The legislation pending in Congress would outlaw any use of race in traffic or pedestrian stops, even if race is only one of many factors cops have adduced in a profile. Of course, cops would still be able to stop an African American if they thought he was a specific black suspect, but otherwise race would be barred from "routine investigatory activities." In other words...
...Jewish joke goes, "How do you make a Romanian omelet? First, steal two eggs." Glass's programs sound as if their creator began by stealing a microphone. He finds--uncovers--drama and humor in the most pedestrian of places. O thou woods colt of Lord Buckley, out of Diane Arbus. Go thou and conquer...
...teams of physicists, one led by Dr. Ronald L. Walsworth and Dr. Mikhail D. Lukin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the other by Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard, who made similar headlines two years ago when she slowed a beam of light down to a nearly pedestrian 38 miles an hour. Walsworth's work will be published in the Jan. 29 Physical Review Letters; Hau's in the journal Nature, sometime soon...
...After lunch, cross the street for a 10-minute funicular ride up the hill to the town center. On Wednesdays and Saturdays there is a lively open-air market along pedestrian streets and squares, with stalls selling everything from homegrown produce and flowers to exotic spices and food. The winding, cobblestone streets lead to the Cité, the Old Town dating to the Middle Ages. Perched on the hilltop is Lausanne's famed cathedral. Built in 1219, it is Switzerland's largest, with intricate stained-glass windows and Gothic artifacts. Every night from...