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First, the good news (and it's mostly good news): Crime rates continue to drop nationwide, with both murder and robbery rates now at their lowest levels since the late 1960s. The overall violent crime rate - the total number of assaults, robberies, rapes and murders per 100,000 people - is now 566, just a little above where it was in 1985, the last year before crack became a popular (and murderous) activity. Guns were still responsible for the majority of murders (64.9 percent) but that figure represents a continued downward trend, dropping from 67.8 percent...
...down," says Dickerson. "It?ll go down, and it?ll be good for McCain?s campaign." But probably not good enough ? $9.3 million, which was McCain?s hard-money fund-raising total as of Friday, just doesn?t buy as many votes as it used...
...fact I'd already written half of another Theodore Roosevelt volume, which I've put aside. That book eliminates the narrative voice, the editorial voice, to an almost total extent. I wanted to see if I could write a biography of a President who lived between 1901 and 1909 in which there was absolutely no intrusion of the present. The reader gets the feeling from the first page to the last that they're back in the first decade of the century. So it couldn't be more different than the approach I took writing about Ronald Reagan...
...years--quitting drink, staying home weekends and leaving his talents as a virtuoso pianist untapped. Morris spent his time reading the president's private diaries, watching old films and tracking down everyone from Reagan's high school flames to Colin Powell, only to discover that the President had a total lack of interest in other people which left him devoid of any type of detailed inner life. Ronald Reagan, it seems, might as well have been the man in the moon...
...work is far from over. As far as the financial ramifications, the University in many ways signed a blank check. Taylor and Jaeger could only estimate that the total money to be paid out was in the millions...