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Would we be safer if police had plenipotentiary powers? Certainly we would curb more crime if police could wander through our homes looking in closets and drawers or stopping and searching any person or car they chose. But the genius of American liberty is the recognition that public safety is not always the highest civic goal, and it may come at too high a price...
Current offerings include shows like "A Bunch of Villagers Getting Eaten," a serial where animated characters do the moonwalk as they wander around a tropical land searching for the culprit who is systematically eliminating their people...
...hard to see why people would have serious reservations about letting John Hinckley wander freely through the Washington, D.C., suburbs. This is the man, after all, who shot four men, including President Ronald Reagan, outside a Hilton hotel in 1981, in a desperate cry for attention from the object of his obsession at the time, actress Jodie Foster. While no one has quite figured out how Hinckley established a causative connection between Reagan's death and Foster's affections, doctors report there have been significant breakthroughs during the would-be assassin's 18-year incarceration in the psychiatric ward...
...While self-absorbed would-be philosophers wander around Widener flipping through pages of Habermas, the surrounding community is well aware of what Harvard people are doing. Invasion of the ivy utopia is common during reading period while would-be thieves size up the campus and pilfer a few backpacks and PalmVs. Although crime has decreased in Cambridge recently because of snow, rain and--unrelatedly--the booming economy, Harvard students still leave burglars every opportunity to grab some booty. From psychologically impaired shoe thieves to the crime spree that jarred Eliot House a few weeks ago, crimes happen here...
...meaningful second act, and just a few impressions of the characters: that Bush seemed expertly able to keep the faith with mainstream Republicans, but didn't make inroads into the political middle. That if Al Gore had really captured the imagination of Democrats and independents, why did so many wander into the Republican primaries to vote for McCain? That McCain did indeed conjure a yearning for freshness and outspokenness in our psyches, and that Bill Bradley was a great basketball player, a fine senator and a citizen with an admirable conscience...