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These are the kinds of crimes American cities expected never to see in high numbers again. In the 1990s police departments nationwide began applying the so-called broken-windows theory: arrest the bad guys for minor offenses, and they wouldn't be around to commit more serious ones. This zero-tolerance approach--combined with more cops on the street to enforce it, a strong economy and a fortuitous demographic change that reduced the population of young men who typically cause the most trouble--lowered the rates of murder, robbery and rape for 10 consecutive years. Until last year. Not only...
...post, Olupona said he plans to launch a serious fundraising effort to propel the committee to being a leading center of African studies in the country...
...parody and ignorance, rather than informed debate, about important issues related to race relations in higher education. While events such as these do, of course, provoke dialogue (at Columbia, it contributed to the founding of our Office of Multicultural Affairs), they also trivialize matters that are deserving of serious discussion. More recently, the Columbia University College Republicans held a “global warming party” (complete with snow cones, Frisbees, and beach umbrellas) to protest a campus screening of “An Inconvenient Truth.” I sincerely hope that, on all campuses, conservative political groups...
...declaration of war is simply clearer, less cluttered than an authorization for war. There's a pusillanimous, don't-blame-me quality to simply giving the President the keys, inviting him to take the wheel and then tsk-tsk'ing if he wrecks the thing. War is a mortally serious business, one that is best not embarked on by granting the commander in chief a mush-mouthed authority to do that which he's empowered to do anyway. It's a little like those make-work proclamations Congress periodically busies itself issuing - declaring November Reading Readiness Month, or somesuch...
...Foreign policy has an effect, but obviously a leader grows stronger through the solution of internal problems," said deputy William Querales, who is on the National Assembly's foreign policy committee. "President Chavez has confronted the problem of poverty and the serious social problems in our country." The opposition counters by pointing to studies showing that Chavez has failed to put a major dent in poverty and that crime has actually increased. But many in the dilapidated barrios on the outskirts of Caracas say they are better off since Chavez was elected in 1998. And since the majority of Venezuelan...