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...this happening now? After a long upward curve, many kinds of serious crime declined sharply this year, but the public mood doesn't always fit the dips in the uniform crime report. And the enormous explosion in the U.S. inmate population--to 1.5 million, up 100% in 10 years--required roughly $20 billion in taxpayer outlays in fiscal 1994. When many law-abiding people can't afford cable TV, the thinking goes, why should convicted embezzlers...
Though thousands of women have graduated from the nation's service academies in the past two decades, their presence in uniform is still an uncomfortable fact of life for many men. At her departure Faulkner explained that there would be an injustice in "staying and killing myself just for the political point." But to the delight of her critics, there were political points to be scored in her quitting...
...them. Some troubling realities of that era, such as segregation, were not acknowledged amid the heartwarming Americana served up by the Digest, which featured Unforgettable Characters (an Arctic explorer), animals (What Snakes Are Really Like), business derring-do (Dr. Geiger's Little Magic Box) and side-splitting Humor in Uniform. As for family life, the Saturday Evening Post observed it only through a flattering scrim, with its Norman Rockwell portraits of boys gone fishin' and short stories such as "The Skipper Was a Dame (No one wanted to charter a boat that had a lady captain. What Helen needed...
...Most Valuable Player award three times, hit a record 18 homers in 12 World Series and entered the Hall of Fame in 1974. Although he was known as No. 7--my son turned his back to the audience to show off the number on the back of the uniform his mother had made for him--he wore No. 6 when he first came up to the Yankees as a 19-year-old rookie. In 1953 he slugged the longest home runs ever measured, 565 ft., off Chuck Stobbs of the Washington Senators, and in 1956 he won the rare Triple...
Like most of the Core, Moral Reasoning classes are uniform in structure: two or three lectures each week and a weekly section with a teaching fellow. As a result, Moral Reasoning classes tend to have the same effect as most Core classes; they're oversubscribed, watered-down and not especially meaningful to students...