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His research resulted in the publication of a number of books, most notably Tempered Zeal: A Columbia University Professor’s Year on the Streets With the New York City Police.
But it would be unfair to speak in such terms without at last turning my critical lens upon myself. Ambrose Bierce once defined a critic as “a person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him”. In my tenure as a...
In helmets, veils and heavy-gauge cotton coveralls, they trudged across the cracked earth of the San Joaquin Valley seeking the killers. Some of the searchers took to the air, combing an area of 400 sq. mi. by helicopter. The enemy sought by the scientific task force was as dangerous...
It was hardly his first major summit, but former President Jimmy Carter found trekking through the Himalayas in northern Nepal to be a challenge nonetheless. The goal of his two-week expedition was the pinnacle of 18,192-ft.-high Mount Kala Pattar, one of the scenic peaks in the...
For Ronald Reagan, the road to his first meeting with a Soviet leader has been bumpy and twisting. Driven by a lifelong visceral anti-Communism, he campaigned for the White House in 1980 by charging that dtente was "an illusion" and that the arms-limitation treaty (SALT II) with...