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Most law-enforcement officials have steadfastly denied that their officers engage in racial profiling. And the practice has been difficult to prove because few police agencies record the race of the drivers they pull over. An important exception came in a study last month by the attorney general of New Jersey, who found that police brass unofficially encouraged state troopers to stop blacks and Hispanics in disproportionate numbers as part of a campaign to increase drug arrests. Two troopers were later suspended and indicted on charges of falsifying records to conceal racial profiling. (They pleaded not guilty.) A judge dismissed...
...very least, the K.L.A. may prove a breeding ground for a new generation of politicians. Thaci, 30, is a typical example. Journalists who met him in his early days thought little of his triumphalist talk or his childish nom de guerre "Snake." And though the guerrillas' military performance in the war was weak, the K.L.A. has been a bastion of Albanian pride. Cast with a patriotic glow, Thaci has quickly become a serious political player...
Harvard placed well behind the Elis at the Yale Spring Invitational April 10-11, placing eighth of 27, in what would prove its best outing of the spring...
...season began and ended on good notes. The first game of the season was a close 7-5 loss to UMass, which would prove to be Harvard's biggest nemesis of the season. This game gave Harvard great confidence heading into the season, since UMass was predicted to be the No. 1 team in Eastern region...
...Basically, we got crushed because we just didn't play like we cared," Hodge said. "Knowing that we could have played them better, as we would prove later, those losses really brought team morale to a all-time...