Word: ridden
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...issue that we often see as irrelevant to our lives at Harvard is crime something that few of us think about with any regularity. We tease our friends at Yale about having to live in crime-ridden New Haven, boasting about the relative safety of Cambridge. But as some recent events demonstrate, Harvard is by no means invulnerable to crime...
Strange as it may seem, Paterno actually entertained--however briefly--the prospect of taking over the University of Miami's scandal-ridden program last year. "There was just enough adventure or something to the idea that it scratched my bark. I thought about it one night, then called and said, 'For crying out loud, I'm not the right...
Although Altman alludes to Nazi and Soviet death-labor camps--extreme examples of human inhumanity--the idealist editor fails to describe the nature of contemporary chain gang labor. Instead, Altman compares the disease-ridden prison camps of early 20th century America to the most horrible places of extermination know to recorded history. Alabama prisoners who today collect waste from the roadsides, and who suffer through heat, cold and embarrassment, face only the indignity which they brought upon themselves, rather then the certain and horrible death which millions of innocents endured merely because they were born. Mr. Altman, comparisons such...
Since taking office, the mayor has broken ground for the $165 million New Jersey Performing Arts Center, which is scheduled to open in 1997. He has got a supermarket chain to agree to open a store in the crime-ridden central ward and has promoted the construction of affordable housing, including the widely admired low-rise Society Hill development...
Regarding your talk with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo [INTERVIEW, June 19], I would ask if he is living in the same politically corrupt, crime-ridden, economically bankrupt country as I am. Or is he living in paradise with Alice in Wonderland? Come on, Mr. President, face reality: your five-year economic plan is a pipe dream. Get real. Talk to the people, not just to the sycophants who surround you and live in luxury. Luis C. Calvillo Mexico City...