Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nice and renovated, and seniors usually end up doing okay, but in between, Harvard housing can be a nightmare. Unique to Harvard is the bizarre glorified hallway, less-than-affectionately known as the walk-thru. Whether it be a bathroom or another bedroom through the causeway in question, heavy traffic inhibits everything from studying to sleeping to heavy petting...
...song gets rolling, "One, two, three...one, two, three...one, two, three four...one, two..." For the next seven minutes we listen to audio clips of artists counting to four. When it's over we find ourselves wishing for the sweet hum of New York City traffic. Sunkist boy has other ideas. He punches the repeat button on his box. The counting recommences. For the next three hours it continues uninterrupted...
Shuttle services manager Carl A. Tempesta could not be reached for comment about the reopening's effect on shuttle traffic...
Minority communities have called the problem DWB -- driving while black. Police departments around the country have denied that they target minority drivers for traffic stops, searches and arrests. But confirmation of the practice came this week from none other than New Jersey -- one of the states where the accusations have been the strongest in the wake of an April 1998 incident in which two white state troopers fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and one Hispanic. ?This is a systematic problem that everyone in the minority community believes is a well-established police practice,? says TIME...
...will bring any immediate changes.? Perhaps. But Governor Whitman has a record of acting decisively when she focuses on a major problem. And the Department of Justice is now also looking into the situation and has asked police departments from around the country to report back on what their traffic-stop practices actually are. If more smoking guns turn up, racial profiling could quickly become the next big issue in the racial politics of the country...