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Crime has declined a bit, at least statistically, in the past five years. Yet, says area Police Commander Stephen Gates, it is "still horrible." Gangs regularly cut one another up. Three weeks ago, young thugs shot and killed a teenager in the cab of his pickup in a parking lot. So many cars were being attacked in "smash-and-run" incidents while passing the Nickerson Gardens housing project that authorities walled off the adjacent highway with a spiked metal fence. Fire Captain Tom Crowley says arson has become a spectator sport, with punks torching buildings "just to watch us work...
There was his backhanded pickup and laser throw from foul territory behind third base to close out a key inning in the Ivy Championship Series...
...fleet makes for a fine show. On the first day of school, I listened to dozens of little kids board the wrong buses and forget how to get home. Each time, the dispatchers directed the drivers to return the kids to the schools even if that delayed the next pickup by an hour. Here was a group of people genuinely determined to leave no child behind...
...know, I'm a union guy. I still play pickup games three times a week...
...fact that there are many evangelical churches, even conservative ones, that think the involvement of pastors in the filibuster fight is an inappropriate mixing of church and state. Scarborough is intent on saving the U.S. from "judicial tyranny"--so intent, in fact, that he once ran his massive Dodge pickup off a country road because he was distracted by the e-mails he was checking on his BlackBerry. If he doesn't succeed, he insists, the consequences will be terrible, especially for people of faith. "Where we are headed right now with separation of church and state is that Christians...