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...subjects like time management. Tryouts for the glee club or the football team. Beer bashes. Join the struggle to save Lebanon; join the struggle to save Israel. At Princeton the freshmen and sophomores meet each other in a traditional series of games and rope pulls known as Cane Spree, which custom decrees that the freshmen lose. At Gettysburg College, the rituals of getting acquainted are even more folksy: a "shoe scramble" determines who will dance with whom. At Carleton, there is a fried-chicken picnic and square dancing on the grassy area known as the Bald Spot...
Until the past few years it was all talk, not widely translated into concrete toughness. So why the imprisonment spree now? Essentially, because U.S. citizens reached a critical level of panic and anger at what they feel is a constantly lurking threat. Moreover, prosecutors in some states are winning a lot more cases, in part because they are concentrating their efforts on the career criminals responsible for a disproportionate share of street crime. Between 1972 and 1979 in Chicago's Cook County, felony convictions increased 470%. Many trial judges, roused by fierce, if glancingly focused public rage, have been imposing...
...never had a 100 million-share day. Last week trading volume topped that magic mark four consecutive times. The peak of 138 million shares on Thursday shattered the one-day record of 132.7 million that had been set only eight days earlier. Average daily volume before the current spree had been only 52.3 million shares. Says Donald Iseman, a partner in the Neuberger & Berman investment firm and a stock trader for 36 years: "I remember when volume was 1 million shares on a good day. If anyone had said that we would some day do 100 million shares, I think...
...however, with his awesome speed and helmet-first style, Rickey Henderson, 23, has brought the slippery science out of the bars and back to the bleachers. The reason? The Oakland Athletics' ebullient outfielder riddled Brock's seemingly shatterproof record last Friday night in a four-steal spree. Said a jubilant A's manager, Billy Martin: "He's the most exciting player since Mickey Mantle...
...Shooting spree in Miami...