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BACK ON THE BEAT: After Boston and New York, police chief William Bratton takes on L.A. crime...
...William Bratton strides into evening roll call at the police station in the Rampart section of Los Angeles, and the 50 officers in the room break into applause. The police chief cracks a smile. It is the week before Christmas, murders in Los Angeles are down 22% from the previous year, and the man whose crime-busting tactics cut New York City's homicide rate almost a decade ago, landing him on the cover of this magazine, is once again being hailed as a savior...
Founded in 1946 by William G. Perry ’35, a professor at the School of Education, the bureau was originally a service mainly to help students with academic and adjustment issues...
...addition to readings by renowned economists Joseph Stieglitz, William Easterly and Amartya Sen, Summers also assigned some of his own published work. Readings that discussed Summers’ tenure as secretary of the Treasury and chief economist of the World Bank were also on the syllabus, like a recent memoir by Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ former colleague...
...scientists--electrical-engineering professor William Hunt and chemistry doctoral candidate Desmond Stubbs--fused microelectronics and biotechnology to create a device that not only detects very small amounts of a substance but can also differentiate between one chemical and another. "I had seen some of the existing electronic noses and knew they weren't chemically specific, so I knew I had to figure out a way to get biotechnology onto a chip," says Hunt...