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Versions of CompStat now shape police work in metropolitan areas from coast to coast. In the Maryland suburbs of Washington, for example, Prince George's County chief Roberto Hylton sings the praises of "a technology that we call Active Crime Reporting, which provides information every 15 minutes, so I can see, even from a laptop away from work, the whole crime picture of the county. I can shift resources. It actually provides me with the trends, patterns that have occurred the previous week, previous day, maybe even the previous year." Paired with a program to improve trust and communication between...
...Directions, a publishing company historically known for its stake in experimental literature, printed the first English translation of the late Roberto Bolanõ’s work—the slim volume “By Night in Chile”—during a time when contemporary Latin American authors were struggling to gain a foothold in the American market. Circulating among critics well-versed in the literary tradition of Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez, the translation introduced readers to a then-unknown Latin America, one neither swathed in magic realism nor saturated...
...immigration in Italy. A Jan. 7 attack on African residents sparked clashes in the town of Rosarno that left more than 50 people hurt, including migrant workers, native Italians and police. Opposition leader Pier Luigi Bersani blamed the melee on "Mafia, exploitation, xenophobia and racism," while Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Italians had been too tolerant of illegal immigration. Hundreds of immigrants were evacuated and more than 10 suspected mafiosi arrested...
...series of moves by the government to target what it perceives as unfettered web activity. Prosecutors have leveled criminal charges against four Google executives because a video depicting an ugly episode of school bullying remained on YouTube for several hours in 2006 before it was removed. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni also asked Facebook to shut down two anti-Berlusconi fan pages in recent months - one entitled "Let's Kill Berlusconi" and another set up to praise the mentally ill man who attacked the Prime Minister in Milan in December. In addition, there have been other bills under both the Berlusconi...
...having trouble, there's a good reason - you probably haven't encountered many. Translations of foreign-language works make up a mere 3% to 5% of the books published in the U.S. annually, and that includes new editions of classics like Anna Karenina. Except for a few recent breakouts - Roberto Bolao, Stieg Larsson, Per Petterson - translated authors tend to deliver anemic sales, which makes mainstream American publishers loath to gamble on them. And Bolao and Larsson were dead (both prematurely, at the age of 50) by the time their books hit big in the States. This...