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Caught between the Charles Hotel development and Brattle Square, the area is one of the last in Harvard Square not to have fallen prey to the purveyors of chic boutiques and upscale office space...
...addition to corporate dominance, this film assumes that most people will be the same greedy, barbarous creatures living out brutish little lives. Criminals will prey upon the innocent, and the authorities will be helpless to stop them. What is needed is a hero, a superhuman police officer who will replace the weak authorities and give the bad guys a dose of their own medicine. In this sense the movie echoes the populism that elected as president a man who dared Congress to "make my day" by sending him a bill to veto...
...exhausted. The pit bull's jaws -- which can exert as much force as 1,800 lbs. per sq. in. -- are strengthened by swinging the dog on a rope, its teeth clamped to a tire. This, she says, makes the animal a "lethal weapon. They hang on until their prey is dead." Such techniques, says Franklin Loew, dean of the Tufts University veterinary school, turn the dogs into "time bombs on legs." Many are used for high- stakes dog fighting, which has a sizable nationwide following, even though it is a felony in 36 states...
There was no racism involved in the verdict. There was only a notice to people who prey on those of us who appear to be meek that we are sick of being victims. Would Goetz have been less threatened if the toughs who demanded money from him were white? No. The fact is that both blacks and whites who want to feel safe in public areas applaud the verdict...
...about protecting property. Americans now worry intensely about protecting individual rights. The morale of the tribe must be considered, along with the rights of the individual and the appetites of the lawyer. In many ways, the U.S. is a hopelessly overlawyered society, the air thick with litigating birds of prey...