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...Alderman Ashanti Hamilton explains, "If the only time people in black neighborhoods see a police officer there it is to arrest somebody, then, of course, they're going to be nervous." Chief Hegerty says repairing this relationship is critical. "We have to count on law-abiding residents to tell us what's going on in their neighborhoods," she says...
...scrutiny. As the trio departed, a Rice aide asked one of her suitors not to inform anyone at the Pentagon that chairmen had been chosen and the study group was moving forward. If Rumsfeld was alerted to the study group's potential impact, the aide said, he would quickly tell Cheney, who could, with a few words, scuttle the whole thing. Rice got through to Bush the next day, arguing that the thing was going to happen anyway, so he might as well get on board. To his credit, the President agreed...
...them under the byline of a novelist as seasoned as Crichton. It's possible he is trying something new here, that he deliberately opted out of his usual central driving plot to present us instead with a panoramic Babel-style view of a whole society gone genetically mad, I tell you, mad. If so, the experiment, like so many he describes, has gone disastrously wrong. This kind of messiness doesn't suit him at all. Crichton's narratives work because they're as gleaming and orderly as nature is frighteningly chaotic. Not that he's wrong: for all I know...
...help this outward manifestation of his optimistic, never-say-never attitude. Meeting him for the first time is a completely disarming experience. Down-to-earth and relaxed, he effortlessly transitions conversation from Smash Brothers to Kantian ethics. Talk to any one of his freshmen peer advisees, and they will tell you how compassionate he is; talk to anyone on his Dorm Crew team, and they will tell you how much he motivates his peers. Talk to just about anyone who has met him, and they’ll tell you how approachable...
...kids ever do. There's something repulsive about the half-closed, red eyes - something that's selfish and irresponsible. The biggest reason I didn't smoke it in the '70s, when everybody I knew was trying "to get me high," was that I wanted to be able to tell my kids that I didn't so that they wouldn't. I feel strongly about it-it's really not my bag. But that's who I am. I also feel pretty strongly that nearly every child should study Latin-really-but I don't think we should lock them...