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...while working on a story about the crime rate in New York City. William Bratton, then the city's police commissioner, was a believer in the "broken windows" theory, which says such big crimes as assault and robbery happen where small decay, like litter and graffiti, is tolerated. To ward off shootings and break-ins, Bratton cracked down on things like public urination and subway spray painting, a tactic that explains at least part of the city's crime drop in the 1990s...
...rather than imprison you. As for the Canadian currently being held in the second-floor lock-up: according to detectives, he's ingested too much lamphong, a locally grown intoxicating flower that causes vivid hallucinations and can cause permanent psychological damage. They'll be shipping him to a psychiatric ward on the mainland, to a place called, of all things, Suan Sanarom--the Garden of Joys...
...Lorrayne S. Ward...
When I was injured, I had a roommate in my four-bed ward who was making no effort to continue his education or plan for a new career. One day he told me why: "I'm going to wait seven years for a cure. Then I'm going to kill myself...
...much of the grunt work at Silicon Valley practices like Gunderson Dettmer and blue-chip New York firms like Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. First-year compensation packages will top $140,000, up from under $100,000 just three years ago. The higher wages are designed to ward off dotcoms seeking to hire lawyers directly rather than "rent" them through a firm. "The legal industry is unique in that corporations have the option of bringing legal services inhouse or outsourcing them to a law firm," says Robert Major, partner at Major, Hagen and Africa, a San Francisco firm...