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...public interest. During his year and half in office, Booker has keep busy in his effort to curb Newark’s crime rate and establish his legacy and reputation as the city’s reformer. His time as mayor has been met with some successes. Violent crime in Newark has declined for the first time since 2002, and the mayor continues to add new projects a growing list aimed at transforming the city. Douglas H. Lasdon, Booker’s former supervisor at the Urban Justice Center said the he is confident in his ability to rise...
...Diamond, his freshman roommate Alfred M. Derrow ’58 remembered, extended some of that boldness outside the walls of his dorm room as well. During one of the era’s “freshman riots” (mostly non-violent affairs), Diamond filled up water balloons and took aim at the police below...
...Plenty of people are ticked that these violent, bloody bouts will air on free TV. Even CBS executive chairman Sumner Redstone has said that while the move makes business sense, he doesn't personally like the sport and thinks airing it is not "socially responsible" (but, he says, the network's president and CEO Les Moonves calls the shots). "Sure, people have asked 'are you crazy?' says Kelly Kahl, the network's scheduling guru. "And internally, some people are nervous. But we're juiced for this. CBS may skew older than the other networks, but it doesn't always have...
...year-olds that went after each other because of something they watched on CBS. It's going to happen." Kahl scoffs at such fears. "I find that statements like this come from ignorance, from a snapshot of what the sport was 10 years ago," he says. "Yes, it's violent. But so is pro football and boxing. There are plenty of violent sports out there. These guys aren't walking out of a bar into the cage. They're walking out a gym into a cage. They are world-class athletes...
...campaign that the Bush Administration seeks to back with $1.4 billion in cash and equipment. It is in Sinaloa's arid mountains that Mexico's drug trade was born, with peasant farmers first growing opium poppies - the raw ingredient for heroin - back in the 1940s. These pioneers developed violent organized crime structures that later took over the business of supplying marijuana, cocaine and then crystal meth to hungry American consumers - a market worth an estimated $30 billion to the Mexican crime families...