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Operation Cease-Fire is not just a police operation. It involves more than a dozen agencies, including the U.S. Attorney, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Suffolk County District Attorney as well as the Ten Point Coalition, a network of 43 black churches in the city. Says the Rev. Eugene Rivers, co-founder of the Ten Point Coalition: "The streets are much safer. The collaboration between the black churches and the police has produced results unseen in any other city." The two groups are now quietly working together to clear up scores...
Summer in America. A time for blood-drenched, dumbed-down action-adventure movies high on corpses, dinosaurs and extraterrestrials, but low on heart. Summer in America. Turn on the TV and watch your tobacco-chawing interleague baseball games; lay down your $49.95 and catch a championship-boxing match complete with an outrageous ear-chewing incident. Summer in America. Also a season for music: strutting macho megatours; draining weekend-long rock festivals; sweaty dance clubs throbbing with testosterone-filled techno. Dial up Ticketmaster; go to an outdoor alternative-rock show in a field, in a stadium; see the teeming, churning mosh...
...died in a car crash (as their sister had before him). Making her way back to the ancient world, as if in response, she soon found herself being passed over the heads of a crowd in Aswan and onto a ferry where men "reclined in circles smoking honey-soaked tobacco in water pipes," their eyes the "shades of lavender or mint green...
STEPPING ON BIG TOBACCO...
...lesson from these cases, as well as from the tobacco settlement, is that that mysterious masked entity known as a corporation is in fact an ingenious device for collectivizing responsibility. Even when a corporation is found guilty, no actual individual need take the fall. But if the defense lawyer for a mere biological person attempts a similar diffusion of blame--by, for example, pointing out the defendant's history of abuse as a child, or the fact that several upstanding citizens had noticed the missing stop sign and failed to report it--said lawyer can expect these days...