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More palpable are the after-effects of a nationwide weapons ban between 2003 and 2005. Some 88% of Sao Paulo's homicides are committed with guns, and the federal restriction on arms sales - short-lived though it was, after having been voted down in a referendum - meant less weapons were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: (Not Such) Bad Boys | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

This is the rule that I would adopt. I've thought about this for a long time, and I don't see why this doesn't work. One time per game, you get a free pitching change without restriction. Otherwise, when you put a pitcher on the mound to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q & A: Baseball Guru Bill James | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

The Cubans keep those cars running because they have to. When the revolution of 1959 deposed Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed authoritarian dictator, and installed a socialist government with land reform ambitions, the American reaction was swift and uncompromising. The Cuban embargo, at first a stopgap punitive measure, sank into...

Author: By Elise Liu | Title: Tear Down This Embargo | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

If you’re a female student athlete, you’ve most likely enjoyed the positive influence of Jeffrey H. Orleans, executive director of the Ivy League. And if you’re a Harvard football player, you may or may not have grumbled at his push for...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Level the Playing Field | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

On Monday, the Pakistani government of Pervez Musharraf, worried about the Pakistan people’s reaction to blasphemous images of the Prophet Muhammed, asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to cut off the country’s access to YouTube. Unfortunately, as the telecommunications companies carried out the government order...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Life, Liberty, and SNL Skits | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

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