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...night, just before they hit the streets armed with two-way radios, police scanners, video cameras and a gutsy determination to stop kids from shooting one another. Seven men and two women bow their heads around a small table in the one-story, cinder-block command center in a rough part of town, hoping for peace, or at least enough rain to keep kids off the streets for one more night. "The hour is getting late, and our children need us," says John Foster, a vice president of the city employees union, who founded the group four years ago after...
Homeless people in the Square have long complained of rough treatment by area police and entrepreneurs. Au Bon Pain, the sandwich shop in Holyoke Center, has in recent years worked out an accommodation with the area homeless, who often use its outdoor tables and chairs. But Au Bon Pain's efforts are unique...
...generated exceedingly dangerous vigilante conduct ((and)) is likely to be found unconstitutional." Still, mass culture and some experts view violent sex offenders as irredeemable monsters. Rutgers University law professor emeritus Alexander D. Brooks thinks that longer sentences should reflect this. "To put men like this in institutions is rough on them," he says, "but you have to tip the scales in favor of women and children...
...these collisions were nothing compared with what happened last month in the rough country north of Nairobi. A single-engine Cessna that Leakey was piloting with four passengers aboard lost power and crash-landed. "It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors," recalled Leakey, speaking last week from a hospital bed in Nottingham, England. "So I told the passengers in as lighthearted a way as possible that they were going to have to find their own way from this point on, looked for friendly trees to hit, turned...
...Trousers worries less about the moral of the story, and so while the story seems zany and rough around the edges and occasionally incoherent, it has more texture, more nerve, more craziness. In not trying so pointedly to convince you that these characters are normal or at least lovable, you come up with that realization all by yourself...