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...This past winter, the marked rise of youth violence in Boston caught the attention of Harvard’s Black Students Association (BSA), who decided to take action following shootings in Dorchester and Roxbury. First via letter—and then by meeting with Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 himself—student leaders from the BSA facilitated the development of a comprehensive plan to curb youth violence in the state. Besides the potential tangible effect of lowering rates of youth violence, the most encouraging aspect of this dialogue was the students’ embracing a cause...
...control, too, the candidates are sounding like Montanans. Obama told a Great Falls audience last Friday, "I believe in the rights of hunters and sportsmen." Word came to the state on Saturday via a press conference call that Clinton has softened her hard line against handguns, retracting her earlier support for tight national restrictions (though she still favors registration and licensing of pistols in New York State...
...they were military. After the demise of Colombian drug cartel bosses like Pedro Escobar, the FARC stepped into the vacuum and earned hundreds of millions of dollars each year protecting traffickers as well as the growers of coca, cocaine's raw material. The guerrillas earned just as much via ransom kidnapping - they're estimated to hold more than 700 Colombian army, police and civilian hostages today, including three U.S. defense contractors whom the FARC abducted...
...hate: buying music. I haven't bought a CD or MP3 in years. Instead, I subscribe to music. I pay a small monthly fee to Rhapsody, an online digital-music service, and can access most of the world's music--more than 5 million songs--by streaming it via the Net to my home audio system. I can listen to just about any song I want, anytime, anywhere. That's known in the geekosphere as "music dial tone...
...quipped. "Call me anytime. Call me at 3 a.m." Clinton's former rival John Edwards came next, joking about what he wanted from the two remaining Democratic candidates in return for his endorsement. (Help for the poor, and a pair of jet skis.) Finally, Barack Obama chimed in via satellite, doing a riff on the tough debate questions that had irked him two nights before. "I think the American people are tired of these games of petty distractions," he said, before adding "Distractions" to the list of pet peeves on Colbert's "On Notice" board, alongside Grizzly Bears and Jane...