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...their waking hours in and around prisons -- commissioners, wardens, guards, not to mention inmates -- that if prisons only punish, and offer no inducements or opportunities for rehabilitation, they simply produce tougher criminals. When prisoners have no constructive way to spend their time, they often fill the hours building a reservoir of resentment, not to mention a grab bag of criminal tricks, that -- count on it -- they will take back to the streets. "All we do," says Dr. John May, one of the 10 doctors who service the 9,000 inmates at Chicago's Cook County Jail, "is produce someone meaner...
Simpson took one such log that had sprouted Douglas firs and hemlocks from the Bull Run, a reservoir located near Portland, Oregon...
...also had the perfect soundtrack for our reminiscing: the Seventies. We had Saturday Night Fever (mine) and the soundtrack to "Reservoir Dogs" (also mine). We had Tarek's Tracy Chapman. We had Amanda's "mushy tape," the stuff our high-school dances were made of. Most alarmingly, we had Sean's prized cassette of Swedish supergroup ABBA's Voulez-Vous...
...paraphrase "Reservoir Dogs," we were stuck in the middle with each other...
Candidates endorsed by the Civic Association bring their own issues to the table, as well. Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 said he is pushing for a coordinated city growth policy, sensible implementation of the Clean Air Act, and passage of reservoir protection legislation...