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...feel less free to take risks—although it’s debatable whether getting trashed and uploading your drunken rendition of “Fat-Bottomed Girls” to YouTube is the sort of risk schools want to encourage. Subjecting everyone involved in a student government scandal or newspaper plagiarism case to the same treatment as Tom DeLay or Jayson Blair would stunt growth more than thalidomide. Better to let students screw up privately now instead of publicly later...
...opulent Italian villa. And other early efforts at internationalization also failed to provide a successful model. A 1973 Harvard Business School educational program in Switzerland fell by the wayside due to lack of enthusiasm, and the Harvard Institute for International Development became embroiled in controversy due to an investment scandal in Russia surrounding Harvard economics professor Andrei Shleifer...
...York, serious criminal activity in this city of non-angels has declined markedly on Bratton's watch. Since 2002, there are 31% fewer serious crimes and homicides are down almost 44%. Civil rights lawsuits against the department have declined, as have the number of settlements to non-Rampart-scandal plaintiffs. And under Bratton, L.A. has been the birthplace of innovative counterterrorism initiatives, such as Operation Archangel, which identifies critical infrastructure and resources in the L.A. area and develops a multi-agency response to protect them against catastrophic attack . "In terms of the three goals I set when I was hired...
...Angeles presented its own unique challenges. The city was plagued by gang violence, simmering racial tensions and a sordid history of police misconduct. The department was, and still is, under federal supervision to mind its civil rights Ps and Qs as part of a 2001 consent decree following the scandal involving an LAPD anti-gang unit in the Rampart division, whose cops committed acts of corruption and brutality...
...thought he was stealing the limelight by taking too much credit for the drop in crime.) He has cultivated good working relationships with many disparate and powerful elements in the city. He tapped longtime LAPD critic and civil rights lawyer Constance Rice to write a report on the Rampart scandal and to oversee compliance with her recommended reforms. He's also developed a friendship with the Police Commission President John Mack, who, as head of the L.A. Urban League, was long a thorn in LAPD's side. "I like to bring lots of people into the tent who have historically...