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...Like pretty-boy Eiji, Hiroaki Shioya roams the streets looking for runaways, but for very different reasons: he's an officer in Tokyo's police youth-crimes unit. With his slicked-back hair and dark suit, Shioya blends in with the businessmen out for the night. But as he turns a corner, a clutch of men in garish jogging suits standing around a black Benz start murmuring. One of them begins to tail Shioya, mumbling into a cell phone. Shioya sighs. "All the Mob guys know my face around here," he says...
...catch guys constantly looking out on their behalf. "From time to time we try to stamp out the shops, but they're like cockroaches," says Shioya, the undercover cop. "Kill one, there are 50 more.") Instead of being arrested, minors are brought to one of eight police-run youth centers in Tokyo, whose staff evaluate them and decide on a course of action. The center in Shinjuku detained about 500 youths last year for questioning. Among boys, the range of offenses included robbery, assault and drug use. Almost all the girls were runaways working in the sex trade...
With her latest album, Spears has cast herself as the prophetess of a maturing demographic of girls and their horribly repressed sexuality. Ultimately, her visions are not original, not interesting and not resonant with the world’s youth. No aspect of the multimedia extravaganza that is Britney Spears now fulfills the potential she once mastered. For all the runaway popularity she once enjoyed, Spears has made her greatest step yet to discard it entirely...
...frequent the Pit have few other places to go. Homeless young people such as Nachtwey are made especially vulnerable because they lack access to a night-time shelter. Dispersing them during the day by closing the Pit would make them even less safe. Pushed out of the Pit, homeless youth might congregate in more isolated, less easily monitored areas where they would have little access to help or protection from local authorities...
Before he came to Harvard in the fall of 1997, Lewis attended the Groton School, a prestigious boarding school in Groton, Mass., where he became a popular campus leader. He served as the senior prefect of his class, an office analogous to class president, and volunteered as a youth soccer coach. An avid singer, Lewis was also active in the school’s choir...