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Though racial profiling is difficult to justify, TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon reports that the U.S. Customs Service faces a specific problem that racial profiling is meant to address. The major overseas drug gangs responsible for the importation of illegal drugs often use the weakest members of their own ethnic groups. "For example," says Shannon, "it is well known that Nigerian crime gangs controlling the heroin trade tend to use U.S. black or Nigerian women as their couriers." The Custom Service does not want to give up the practice of profiling or its right to stop and search African-American...
...year ago, on March 24, Mitchell Wright was plunged into anger and despair. On that day, two boys, Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, played sniper on their middle school campus in Jonesboro, Ark. They murdered four of their schoolmates with 22 shots. They also killed a teacher, Shannon Wright, 32, Mitchell Wright's wife. Says he: "The ballistics report shows the Johnson boy fired five shots and had five direct hits. He hit one person in the head, he hit my wife in the chest and the knee and two girls in the knee area." The shooter, Wright...
...Claude Shannon shows that all information can be reduced...
...charged up the G.O.P. and caught the attention of a nation more cynical than ever about its politicians. In Des Moines, Dole dropped by the Iowa state girls' basketball tournament and was mobbed by autograph-seeking schoolgirls and their parents. "She'd be the first woman President ever!" declared Shannon Anderson, 13, who sidled up to Dole in the stands. "Awesome!" said her friend Melissa Haglund, 12. "Power to the women!" Dole was smiling as always, but she must know that Girl Power takes you only so far. She'll need more than gender to get where she wants...
Meanwhile, with eight wins in its last 10 games, Northeastern might be the hottest team in the country behind Harvard, which needed overtime to outlast the Huskies, 7-6. With a Kazmaier nominee in forward Hilary Witt and two reliable goaltenders in Erika Silva and Shannon Meyers, Northeastern finished the regular season only one point behind second-place UNH and beat Brown, UNH and Providence in February...