Word: spikeness
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...with violent habits hardened and reinforced in prison. "The next generation of gang homicides is going to have a different construct [from the crack epidemic]," says Jack Riley, director of the criminal-justice program at Rand Corp. His research points to returning felons as a major reason for the spike in shootings across Los Angeles. "Locals in South Central and East L.A. think it is people returning from prison and trying to re-establish their authority," he says. There are 100,000 gang members in jail in California, and they are getting out at a rate of about...
...made his feature-film debut in 1957 with The James Dean Story. Martin Scorsese has made nearly as many documentaries as fiction features. (His study of Bob Dylan premieres on PBS in September. He is also in talks to do a film on Airbus.) Such notables as Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Taylor Hackford and Michael Apted still shuttle from one form to the other. Werner Herzog, the world-class German auteur, has completed three superb docs--The White Diamond, Wheel of Time and Grizzly Man--each one as mystical and magical as the most surreal fiction film...
...their sophomore years, 35 members of the Class of 2005 became religion concentrators, more than twice the number of concentrators in the classes before and after it. Some have attributed the spike to Sept. 11, and how it has heightened awareness of tensions between the Muslim and Christian worlds...
This argument travels well beyond Cambridge. Since Sept. 11, it is fair to say that many Americans have appreciated their crisis in eastern-literacy—hence the national enrollment spike in Arab language courses. But note that this upsurge only stood at 11,000 students as of 2002, and crucially, such interest does not seem to have extended to other substantial areas of the Muslim world, such as Pakistan and Indonesia...
...downtown Manhattan hotel. "You start to get the idea that everything you have to say is exceedingly important. It's not. It can just be like, 'I'm tired. My feet are sweating, I want to watch The Gastineau Girls. I want to watch Spike TV.'" He switches to a dramatic Spike TV voice. "We're here in the Philippines, where this telephone worker has no idea he's about to be shocked with 50,000 volts." It's the first of many routines for the night...