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...Masters, who before his election last year had been one of the city's most visible community leaders, said parents of children who dropped their pants were among the most avid supporters of the ban. City spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown admits she wasn't among them. Legislating morality doesn't make sense, she said, though she acknowledges the law could work and wishes she "had a dollar for every time we made Torrey [her youngest son, now 25] pull his pants up when he was growing...
...crackdown on sagging not only has strained relations between young black men and law enforcement but it could also have a significant economic impact on inner-city residents struggling financially, says Tricia Rose, a professor at Brown University's Department of Africana Studies and the author of the forthcoming book The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop - And Why It Matters. The average median household income in Riviera Beach is about $10,000 lower than that in the rest of the country, and the city's per capita violent-crime rate is higher...
...Rose sees a class dimension to the crackdown; most cities that have pondered or passed saggy-pants laws are led by black politicians. "A lot of this is [about] class and the anxiety that this young black population ... is going to stigmatize the black middle class," Rose argues. And, she adds, young people will continue to adopt dress codes that get a rise out of adults and that reflect class alienation...
...young men, returned home to build a society that for 30 years epitomized vigor and modernity. With a degree from Harvard, Oz went into journalism, first with the Journal of Commerce and then with TIME. In 1955 he was hired by Newsweek, then TIME's distant competitor, and rose rapidly up the editing ranks. In 1960 he worked with his friend Ben Bradlee - then Newsweek's Washington bureau chief, later the editor of the Washington Post - to persuade the Graham family, which owned the Post, to buy the newsmagazine. Oz became Newsweek's editor...
...People in the South, God love them, they just think it’s an aberration,” Murphy says. A better question might be to ask why they’re so surprised. The last two senior Crimson starters at quarterback—Neil Rose ’02 and Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05—were starting quarterbacks in the Hula Bowl, a showcase game for college seniors before the NFL draft. Fitzpatrick is still in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals, one of several ex-Crimson stars playing professional football. Hatch?...