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...good thing about monuments is they commemorate the past. Last year the city inaugurated a Community Oriented Policing Squad (COPS), now headed by Compass, a name so foursquare no novelist would dare invent it. With secondhand furniture and federal money, police set up round-the-clock substations in vacant apartments at three of the city's most deadly projects. The 45 cops assigned to them work foot patrol, get to know the law-abiding residents and sweep out the street dealers. They also help pick up trash, combat graffiti and round up kids who play hooky...
Drawing parallels with the successful anti-smoking campaign, Wechsler advocates framing the consequences of drinking in terms of what he calls "secondhand binge effects." It is Wechsler's hope that students adversely affected by their friends' drinking will realize the harmful effects of alcohol and change their own behavior, if not their friends' as well...
...result, Wechsler's "secondhand binge effects" theory may not be as universally successful as it first appears. Wechsler's approach only emphasizes teaching students about the harmful effects of heavy drinking: it does not actually focus on affecting whether students feel the moral burden of those lessons...
...agency's claim to innocence on its incompetence. The CIA's Guatemala station was shockingly sloppy. It received tips about Alpirez' supposed abuses from highly unreliable witnesses but did not seek corroboration. At one point, the station even passed on--without further investigation-allegations of torture based solely on secondhand accounts of his boasts at a drinking party. Then the station officers added insult to idiocy: the report details their withholding suspicions from two successive American ambassadors in Guatemala, from the U.S. Congress and sometimes from their own superiors. Hitz concludes that this was all from negligence rather than...
This being an academic conference, Ruth couldn't escape a little secondhand psychoanalysis. "The Babe's id appears to have been relatively unimpeded in its quest for satisfaction," maintained Adam Cox of Lehigh University's psychology department. "Through sex and food, Ruth nurtured the unresolved aspects of his infantile self with abandon." Buddy Hassett, who played for Ruth when he coached Brooklyn in 1938, revealed the true secret of the Babe's gluttony: "He had a great digestive system." As the Babe might have said if he had had the vocabulary: deconstruct that...