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Many law-enforcement experts point to the drug war as an example of the hopelessness of curing crime by locking up an ever larger number of criminals. In September, New York City unleashed a tactical narcotics team to make | undercover drug buys, allowing police to slap dealers with felony charges...
Nor is any upswing in sight. Mainline congregations, says Isabel Rogers, former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), are "no longer the primary shapers of values in American society." What, then, does their decline portend for a society that has been so largely built upon their values and precepts? That...
The scavengers sell their booty to scrap dealers. While new red bricks cost about $450 per 1,000 on the retail market, dealers pay the thieves only $50. Since Detroit tears down 2,000 to 3,000 abandoned buildings a year, police are not terribly concerned about the thefts. The...
This year, however, Louisville is on the upswing. Four of the seven shows at the just completed festival seem sure to have further life; one is among the freshest, funniest and most poignant works seen on any U.S. stage this season. Though the writers included Broadway stalwart Arthur Kopit, novelist...
"I think [the march] really reenergized people," says Jennifer A. Dunne '89, who organized the 11 charter buses that brought Harvard undergraduates to Washington. "It was really exciting to see it happen and come together. I was astounded at the number of people who went." The level of activism at...