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...Richard Zoglin, "especially if Murdoch is serious about creating what he says is a more conservative alternative to CNN. But a lot of this is all very hazy still. The three networks are talking about doing all-news and none of their plans is solid. Murdoch has the tougher job because he doesn't have, as the other networks do, a national news operation up and running to build on." But Ailes, who appeared Tuesday at a joint press conference with Murdoch, spun forward: "When everybody says you can't do it, you get up the next day and find...
...anything defuse the demographic time bomb? Fox urges "reinvesting in children": improving schools, creating after-school programs and providing other alternatives to gangs and drugs. DiIulio, a law-and-order conservative, advocates tougher prosecution and wants to strengthen religious institutions to instill better values. Yet he opposes the Gingrich-led effort to make deep cuts in social programs. "A failure to maintain existing welfare and health commitment for kids," he says, "is to guarantee that the next wave of juvenile predators will be even worse than we're dealing with today." DiIulio urges fellow conservatives to think of Medicaid...
...experts in bad behavior are intrigued. Something is happening here. The question is, Why? The lineup of contributing factors includes most of the usual suspects: a decline in the proportion of young males in the general population, the leveling off of crack cocaine use, a moderate unemployment rate and tougher sentencing that gets more felons off the street and keeps them off longer...
...extent that is true, police have had to pull themselves in two disparate directions--tougher and softer, as the COPS program in New Orleans illustrates. Tougher means more aggressive intervention. "If we see somebody we don't know, we ask them what they're doing there," says Compass. "If the story doesn't check out, we arrest them for trespassing. Now we don't see as many drug dealers around here." But at the same time, it has meant more neighborhood-friendly tactics, the foot patrolling and problem solving that form the loosely defined strategy called community policing...
China's leaders, never known for lenience, are suddenly acting tougher than in the recent past, jailing dissidents, executing dozens of criminals and corrupt officials, pressuring foreign journalists. Last month the National People's Congress submitted new laws to make it easier to arrest individuals and impose martial law. There have never been serious impediments to doing either, but for some reason the government has decided to remove even flimsy legal obstacles...