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...years later, I return to this noble issue. It is spring after all: the living is getting easier, and the proverbial fish and cotton are starting to rise from their slumber. Moreover, since this column will hereafter strictly concern politics, education and books, this may be my last opportunity to reflect quixotically on eros and the public sphere. Indulge me this once, and then forever after, crack the scourge of reason upon my back...
...tranquil early morning silence is broken when one minute later my slumber is interrupted by a screaming man banging on a trash can as if Armageddon were close approaching...
...with crime? For one thing, anxiety hates a vacuum. With worries about the cold war and the economy evaporating, the fear of crime has reared up in their place. For another, every few weeks the headlines resupply our worst imaginings. Randomly, irrationally, crime pounds at the door of a slumber party. It pulls up beside a tourist at a highway rest stop. It catches...
Just when it looked like the Crimson would forge a lead, however, Yale woke up from its late-game slumber to garner the win. Yale star Damon Franklin, who had been kept quiet most of the contest, stole a pass for an easy lay-up and then hit a monstrous 23-foot three point shot to ensure that Harvard would never regain the lead...
Local and federal officials last week arrested a man who may be linked to the Polly Klaas kidnapping case. Klaas, 12, was abducted from her home in Petaluma, California, during a slumber party two months ago. The suspect, an ex-convict arrested for a parole violation, resembles the description given to police by Klaas' friends. The girl has not yet been found...