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Harvard should live up to its responsibility to ensure that women can work in an environment free from the fear of rape. Perhaps the most frightening statistic of all is that 41 percent of women who have been raped say they expect to be raped again.
The need for more police has never been greater, as one chilling statistic reveals: the ratio of police officers to reported felonies has reversed since the late 1940s. Then there were 3.3 cops for every violent crime reported in big cities. By 1988 there were about 3.2 reported serious crimes...
These political refugees, who came with little money or knowledge of the new language, were more likely to join the poor, less-educated residents of Chinatowns, Koreatowns, and other urban ghettos--the Asian-Americans whom the public rarely sees on the cover of magazines. One telling statistic: Fully 50 percent...
As polling methods have advanced, the press has gradually elevated pollsters to the status of prophets. And journalists sometimes forget that their prophecies come not from the heavens but from a branch of mathematics called probability theory, whose most obvious application is to gambling. The concepts are commonly introduced in...
The result has been tragic: while the rich celebrate the recent period of economic growth, the poor have seen few changes. Income inequality in the United States remains unconscionably high, and racial rifts continue to characterize urban life. A telling statistic: if current trends continue, one-half of all American...