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...Cambridge District Court hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, when the students said they will attempt to have the charges against themreduced from arson, a felony which impliespre-meditation of the crime, to wanton destructionof property, a misdemeanor...
...gain jobs and admission to schools for which they are under-qualified, while cheapening the achievements of those who could have succeeded without preferential treatment. Social programs pushed by the civil rights establishment often aggravate the problems they are supposed to solve. The crises of the ghetto--rampant crime, wanton violence, the high school dropout rate, illegitimate births--can no longer be attributed simply to white racism, nor can they be solved simply with more money from Washington. Blacks must take primary responsibility for the "social pathologies" that ail their communities...
...murders are mindless, random, indiscriminate. Young black men seem to be murdering one another with a malign indifference, killing with the casual air of Bruce Lee dispatching men in a kung fu movie. For some, it seems as if murder has become a kind of noxious fashion or wanton recreation. "Members of the new generation kill, maim and injure without reason or remorse," writes Silberman...
...Magic Bullet's is Brandt's analysis of the military's campaign against V.D. On the eve of World War I, the stereotypical macho image of men in uniform rang true; in 1917 the War Department was so alarmed by training camp reports of drunkenness and carousing with wanton women that it promised soldiers "invisible armor" to protect them against the "heated temptations" of immorality. A Commission on Training Camp Activities was created with the objective of not only cleaning up the extra-curricular activities of the soldiers but using the American military to set an example of morality before...
...such wanton abandon were once again prohibited, Epps says, "it might improve people's GPAs." Of course, he adds, colonial Harvardians didn't always heed these rules. "During those days people did the most awful things in their rooms, like drinking grog and smoking things out of far-eastern pipes...