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...brightest star, a country that has gone from dustbowl poverty to middle income status in a generation, where elections are peaceful, politicians retire voluntarily, civil society is vibrant and where natural resources (in Bostwana's case, diamonds) are not a curse or a spur to corruption and violent theft, but a blessing shared...
...justify its purchase over thrift store duds and sealed, Fruit of the Loom three-packs.A friend of mine once explained to me that American Apparel has a “don’t ask” policy for shoplifting and doesn’t use anti-theft clips. Because of this, it’s a right of passage for hipsters to steal their clothing from Am Ap. I’m not trying to suggest anything, but I’ll simply say, enjoy the recession however you see fit. —Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly...
...last album, the vibrant and meditative “Modern Times,” cemented yet another victorious trilogy that began with 1997’s “Time Out of Mind” and 2001’s “‘Love and Theft.’” Now, Columbia Records issues the eighth installment of Dylan’s strikingly consistent “Bootleg Series,” called “Tell Tale Signs,” seemingly as a triumphal arch erected in honor of a last fruitful...
...mobile phone, the only place where she had stored the numbers of everyone she knew in the city: the ex-colleague who was her only link to her new job, the friends she had made since going out, and the boyfriend who had gone home... With the theft of her phone, the friendships of a year and a half vanished as if they had never been. She was alone again...
...taste of their own medicine - that might as well be the motto of Operation Leopard, a new approach to policing adopted in the town of Pitsea in southeast England earlier this year. Local residents had complained of their deteriorating quality of life as reports poured in of mounting theft, vandalism and public drunkenness by gangs of petty criminals known as "hoodies" because of their preference for hooded sweatshirts. The local constabulary came up with an unlikely solution: "We basically decided to harass them," Fergus Caulfield of Essex Police says of the hoodies. Operation Leopard involves police officers targeting known offenders...