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...Sept. 11 story, "HMS Study Finds No Influence from Direct Drug Ads," misstated the roles of the two authors of the study in question. Harvard Medical School professor Stephen B. Soumerai was the co-author, not the principal investigator. The study was in fact the doctoral dissertation of Michael R. Law, who was the paper's primary author. The error was a result of erroneous information provided by the Medical School's communications office...
Apart from their constitutionality, of course, the other question surrounding curfews is whether they are effective. Bernard Harcourt, author of Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy, argues that good police work is the better answer. He compares imposing curfew ordinances to "using a Band-Aid on a patient who is hemorrhaging - you might be able to stop the blood flow in one spot, but it's not going to help the bleeding." Problems like drug use, gun possession and gang membership, he insists, won't go away "just because you force youths to stay at home...
...Gibson probed her views of war and peace and the balance between them, and this is where the ice got a little thin. His question about her willingness to defend Georgia from Russia, even if it meant going to war, did allow her to mention that she'd spoken to President Saakashvili to assure him of her support. Gibson pressed her on how she would view Israel attacking Iran's nuclear facilities. "I don't think that we should second-guess the measures Israel has to take to defend themselves and for their security," she replied. Again Gibson asked, Does...
...done enough bad interviews in my day that I can hardly imagine handling one in front of an audience of a million kibitzers. So I'll spare you (and Gibson) my two cents on which follow-up I would have asked here and how I would have phrased this question there...
...screen, it was "His worldview?" - with a hint of a challenge in it.) She injected "Charlie" into her answers constantly, as if trying to draw him in; he kept a distanced and almost curt manner, following up briskly and often. After a few follow-ups to his question on whether the U.S. had the right to invade Pakistan to pursue terrorist leaders, he asked bluntly, "I got lost in a blizzard of words there. Is that...