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New Orleans is not alone. After years of depressing and implacable upswing, serious crime is retreating all around the U.S. In the nine cities with a population of more than 1 million, the decrease in violent crimes was 8% in 1994. Nationally, murders fell 12% in the first six months...
Despite the boycott of the capital campaign and the general anger of Radcliffe alumnae at the slow process, administrators say it is unlikely the coming years will see any dramatic upswing in the tenuring of women.
Yes, players on a team that was outscored 36-21 in 1994 will have to work hard to get in games. Harvard's on an upswing, and those that don't buy it will get knocked aside.
So far, there's absolutely no evidence that this year's upswing in storms can be attributed to that always fashionable suspect global warming. It's logical to assume that warmer oceans will give rise to more dangerous hurricanes. But the warming, if it's real, is still too small...
In the view of some Iraq watchers, Hussein Kamel, whose teeter-totter fortunes looked to be on the upswing again recently, has been advocating a more aboveboard treatment of U.N. monitors, whose job is to search out and police the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. According...