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...Ronald Reagan's legacy: his eight-year Senate record on taxes, social issues and foreign policy were in lockstep with conservative tenets, earning him an 86% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, compared to front-runner John McCain, an Arizona Senator who has an 82% rating. He understood that unwavering conservatism was his best bet with voters and even blared it from the side of his campaign bus: "The Clear Conservative Choice: Hands Down!" But from Sept. 5 until today, when Thompson announced he was ending his candidacy, he was plagued with complaints that he didn't seem...
...everyone believes it's just the laws of gravity, or the laws of supply and demand, that account for peaks and valleys in the crime rate. "The relationship between the economy and crime has never been well understood or clear-cut," says Arthur Lurigio, a criminal justice professor at Loyola University in Chicago. "The changes in law enforcement policies and significant declines in homicides cannot be ignored or dismissed as coincidence or fluke. Policing has become more strategic and smarter than it has ever been...
...Romney was aided in the gambit by rival John McCain, who was delivering a much grimmer message: the lost jobs were gone forever, and Michiganders needed to think harder about worker retraining. McCain - who had joked in New Hampshire that "the issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book" - seemed to have little feel for Michigan's pain or the forces that were driving...
Faust fielded questions about the endowment (large, and poorly understood), how being female informs her presidency (she has a “secret bond” with women on campus), and whether she will attend the ROTC commissioning ceremony, which she missed last year to speak at a Radcliffe reunion event, (unclear...
...firearms, make arrests, execute warrants, and otherwise avail themselves of any standard police power at the disposal of a Boston police officer or Massachusetts state trooper. From the standpoint of a private citizen, there is simply no practical difference between a HUPD officer and a Cambridge officer.It is well understood that police departments are required, upon request, to surrender records related to the exercise of their police powers, such as arrest and incident reports. Public scrutiny of such records is an indispensable tool for monitoring, and thereby preventing, any potential abuse of police powers. Nevertheless, campus police departments across...