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Though the reforms were designed to make police better crime fighters, it was the law of unintended consequences that they wound up enforcing most effectively. Many academic experts believe the changes fostered conditions that contributed to the sharply higher crime rates of the past three decades. A spate of scholarly studies has demonstrated that the offenses to quality of ) life that police now routinely overlook -- such things as loud radios, graffiti and aggressive panhandling -- create an atmosphere in which more serious crime is likely to occur. Those petty disturbances are the ones that trouble and frighten ordinary citizens the most...
...critical drubbing their shows usually get. Miller, 46, a Milwaukee native, started out as an assistant to director Billy Wilder, then wrote episodes for The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch. Boyett, also 46, grew up in Atlanta, moved to New York City to become a playwright and wound up as a program executive at ABC. They met when Miller was co-producing one of ABC's big hits of the '70s, Happy Days. Boyett later joined Miller (and his then partner Edward Milkis) to produce such shows as Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy and Bosom Buddies. "What we really care...
...kind of alcoholic." Her brother Ben, who edited a volume of Cheever's letters, recalled that John was "bisexual all his life . . . He liked good- looking younger men." Still, these were posthumous comments, made by members of the family that Cheever alternately cherished and regarded as a self-inflicted wound. In his notebooks, the author discloses himself in passages that seem to have been meant for an audience...
...Arab-Israeli Conflict. Everyone agrees this is the No. 1 problem, the throbbing wound at the heart of the Middle East, which must be healed before the region can truly find peace. Expectations are high that the new bonds between the U.S. and moderate Arab states offer the best opportunity yet for a comprehensive settlement. If only there were as much concord on the answer...
...showed off a shooting arm that did not appear to be the least bit sore. James hit two three-pointers from the top of the key, the second of which brought the Crimson to within five, 40-35. Tarik Campbell then hit a layup in traffic as the clock wound down, reducing Yale's lead to three, 40-37, at intermission...