POLITICAL BOOKNOTES

...And the corner soon sucks her back...

...In particular, the staff encouraged, and subsequently endorsed without question, Christy’s ever-wilder accusations, including sexual abuse by her father...

...For one thing, it brings to mind another scholarly tome from a few years past, in which the authors concluded that Hitler might, just might-we must be careful here, we are scientists-have been crazy...

...He recalls the strategy he had proposed for New York when he was a “senior member” of the Giuliani transition team...

...rather than about the collapse of the cclmmunity mental health centers that should be providing a better answer...

...MARVIN KALB is director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University...

...But Siegel offers only a few glimpses of his vision of the future...

...They hawk their product to passing cars, and serve almost anyone...

...Parents who phoned advertised hotlines for advice on Susie’s temper tantrums or Bobby’s sullen moods were inevitably urged (assuming the family was well-insured) to bring the child in for an evaluation...

...its people are also “cultivating meaning in a world that has declared them irrelevant...

...The model worked something like this: Milken’s allies and captives would begin by buying and selling a company’s stock, vigorously but to all appearances senselessly, in cross-trades through Drexel...

...The clear objective was to flip the company into play, but there was a hidden agenda...

...Mother Merry Scheck, if anything, was guilty of being too passive...

...undaunted-and, more to the point, incurious-they proceeded on their way...

...For instance, in examining the origins of the S&L fiasco, it should be borne in mind that sex, stupidity, and money explain all of human history...

...Legalization might take the profit out of street dealing, and strip glamour from the pushers...

...Trailing dope fiends and dealers is not an easy task...

...In his-dare we say?-clutches, Milken had more than 140 S&Ls and their taxpayer-insured deposits...

...Put heads in tleds” was the charming directive from Southwood management to staff...

...He proclaimed that he had ordered us not to pursue certain lines of inquiry with the data from his office and that we had disobeyed...

...In this case, it was the long overdue recognition of mental illness as a medical-and hence, insurable-problem...

...He describes in glowing terms the new Mexican immigrant neighborhoods in Los hgeles, arguing that “the strength of their conventional values gives the Mexicans another advantage...

...As the company’s chief financial officer watched the gyrations of his stock in horror, he was likely to receive a call from Jim Dahl, Milken’s right hand man, or from another Milken lackey...

...He should be in school, of course...

...We soon learned that this official had contacted our funding agency to insist that we stop analyzing data that had led us to the ‘forbidden’ lines of inquiv To the academic investigators, this suggested nothing, except perhaps that the high official had experienced a difficult childhood...

...Simon, whose first book, Homicide, chronicled a year in the life of Baltimore detectives (and led to the TV series of the same name), and Burns, a former Baltimore police detective himself, describe the debasing effect all this has had on police work...

...Anthropologist ’Elliot Liebow noted a similar quest for meaning on inner-city streets 30 years ago in his classic, Tally...

...The problem is what’s not happening elsewhere...

...With kids doing much of the slinging, gone is the discretion dealers once showed...

...Hutchins explained sardonically: Astronomers . . . have detected something that looks like moss growing on Mars...

...The argument seems not so much wrong as irrelevant to our present troubles: The recent welfare reforms have completely changed the fiscal picture...

...But in the mid-’80s, cheap cocaine lured women out there as well-to buy, and then sometimes to sell, to support their new pastime...

...Siegel suggests we may find guidance for the future in the abandoned artifacts “lining city streets . . . vestiges of a world that worked...

...The Schecks were imperfect parents...

...During a brief conference they could transform a simple act of teenage rebelliousness into a potentially deadly “disorder” requiring immediate hospitalization...

...Consider the book’s main character, ISyear-old DeAndre McCullough...

...Liebow studied men, because that’s who was on the corner at the time...

...In the 1980s, the nation's S&Ls were a den of thieves...

...They say this several times, rather as though they were reminding us that Lake Michigan is long, the moon is round, the Great Pyramid is big, and President Clinton talks too much...

...But that didn’t stop Southwood from egging Christy on, nor did it stop the hospital and government agencies from inflicting a public nightmare on the Schecks that ultimately enveloped not just Christy and her parents, but younger sister Molly as well...

...Nor do the authors know where a rather large amount of the money went...

...Some of these were allies (Charlie Keating’s Lincoln...

...If persuasion didn’t fill beds quickly enough,NMEhospitals were not above more coercive tactics...

...The Big Money Crime team, with bushels of grant money to burn and acres of afternoon for thought, is aware that Congressman Fernand St...

...broader questions about the way mental illness is treated (or, too often, mistreated) in the United States...

...Washington is suffering particularly from the absence of strong, responsible elected leadership, but 30 years ago Washington was just beginning to emerge from colonial status...

...Stupid criminals make for stupid police . . . a valuable bit of precinctlevel wisdom that the Baltimore department ignored as it committed itself to a street-level drug war,” the authors write...

...Brown has been patrolling the neighborhood streets for two decades...

...Calavita and her colleagues are never so happy as when they are counting things...

...Against all the sanction we can muster, this new world is surviving, expanding, consuming everything in its path,” write David Simon and Edward Burns...

...New York’s Al Sharpton is now seen more as a pathetic figure than as a monster, a distraction rather than a threat...

...Germain, the coauthor of the bill that made possible the conflagration, was a willing lackey of the thrift industry, but they do not plumb his intellectual depths-depths suggested by the fact that he invested his ill-gotten campaign contributions in the International House of Pancakes...

...I am convinced that Mars was once inhabited by rational human beings like ourselves, who had the misfortune, some thousands of years ago, to invent television...

...New York, Washington, Los Angeles in the ’50s were good places to live and work for some, and bad for othersparticularly every kind of minority...

...Michael Milken took it...

...Whole officefuls of lawyers whose specialized skills were essential to recovering lost or stolen money were dismissed...

...But while treatment cures the phgsical addiction it doesn’t change what Fran has to return to-a neighborhood where once you hit bottom, .the only way to go is sideways...

...once, while walking down the street with DeAndre’s father, Gary, the authors and Gary were shoved into an alley and robbed by three young men armed with a pistol and a hunting knife...

...These gripes notwithstanding, Bing's book is a powerful one, offering sobering evidence that for one lost 13year-old girl-as for many other patients-the most dangerous forces were those that ought to have been most dedicated to making her well...

...ADAM YARMOLINSKY is Regents Professor of Pub lic Poliry in the Universiry of Maryland sytem...

...Silverado, where Vice President Bush‘s son Neil was a director) and some (most) were captives held in thrall by the fact that no one would recapitalize them but Drexel...

...Criminal referrals based on solid information went nowhere...

...And the architects of American urban fiscal and welfare policy over the last quarter century made some whoppers...

...The definitive book about the S&L crisis remains to be written...

...Still, like many others enraptured more by the concept of a free press than by its recent performance, Flink expresses the hope that the press has the wit and courage to do its assigned job-namely to provide fair, accountable, and responsible coverage of the public arena so informed citizens can make intelligent decisions about the policies of their government...

...He is not proud of what he is...

...Police work has degenerated to “fish-in-a-barrel tactics,” Simon and Burns say, and investigation and procedure have become foreign concepts to a generation of cops...

...The press should make every effort to be more accountable to the public...

...The occasional violence necessitated by the business used to be limited and planned...

...He is more optimistic than most analysts about the chances of upward mobility ec from ~ a McDonald’s counter...

...The final injustice of the system was one of simple neglect...

...Gary’s attempts at kicking are likewise doomed...

...For the problem isn’t really what’s happening on the corner...

...And you wonder what it is you should wish for...

...Journalists should be urged “to inform, not merely entertain...

...While there are undoubtedly many fine, honest psychiatrists and hospitals out there, the river of insurance money was too tempting for miscreants to pass up...

...Once the company was in a cooperative frame of mind, it would issue junk bonds through Drexel...

...Why become adept at covert surveillance when you can just go down to any corner, line them up against the liquor store, and search to your heart’s content...

...CHARLES SLACK is a reporter for The Richmond Times-Dispatch...

...Promising investigations were abruptly terminated...

...His father is one of these...

...The author rounds up horror stories of teens who were essentially kidnapped on some flimsy pretense (suspicion of a drug problem, for example) then released only after racking up enormous bills...

...It sounds like the old supply side economics applied locally-and is just about as credible, or as specific...

...Nevertheless, understaffed Southwood left her alone long enough to hang herself...

...The subjective nature of diagnosing mental illness--as opposed to the cold reality of, say, a fractured fibula-left ample room for slick counselors to convince parents their kids needed inpatient care...

...Soon these kids were on the corners too-‘“drawn not only by the quick money, but by the game of it,” the authors write, “ . . . playing gangster, selling vials, and ducking the police...

...DeAndre grew up on a street where voices day and night chime out “Killer Bee,” “Lethal Weapon,” “Tec Nine,” or whatever brand of heroin or cocaine is being hawked that day...

...It is true that Milken’s junk bonds did not have a high default rate, but it is also beside the point...

...Political Booknotes Psychiatric Malpractice by Charles Slack IN MARCH 1992, FOUR MONTHS into her stay at Southwood Psychiatric Center in San Diego, 13-year-old Christy Scheck tied the sash of her terry cloth bathrobe around her neck and, while sucking on a Tootsie Pop, hung herself against her bathroom door...

...But the more complicated challenge of creating an alternative for people like DeAndre-a meaningful role for them in our society-would stubbornly remain...

...In this place only, they belong...

...M. Danny Wall, the Garn aide who wrote much of the bill and later became chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, was a man who faced, but did not surmount, many cognitive challenges...

...Her personal connection to the mental health system is too brief and ancient to warrant such a detour, especially at the beginning of the book...

...When “media” has superseded “news”-in the parlance of modern-day journalism-who will set the new standards for ethics, King or Koppel...

...Tears trail down his cheeks, as he continues: “I‘m a drug addict...

...Shop open,” a dealer declares, as soon as Brown’s wagon is out of sight...

...Not that the arrests of these small-time pushers slacken trade on the corners...

...They counted beans...

...The people of the corner are obviously not saints, but as the authors show, most are not sociopaths either...

...One of the “fiied perceptions” the authors challenge is the idea that those involved in the drug life have mainly themselves to blame- that they freely chose to use or deal...

...He seems more concerned with what he considers the excessive social services available in New York City for a child with emotional problems than with the inadequacy of these resources (as documented by investigative journalism...

...Christy Scheck suffered from serious depression, had hurt herself several times, and demonstrated rage against her family...

...the hallways are heavily trafficked by dope fiends...

...The question is no longer whether but how to do it...

...When confronted with the thrift industry and its subsequent $500 billion (or $750 billion or $1.1 trillion) fiasco, the members of the Reagan administration and their legislative allies resembled turkeys and boxcars: There wasn't a brain in a mile of them...

...We want to be your investment banker,” this worthy would say...

...On the night she killed herself, Christy sent unmistakable signs to attendants that she was depressed and on the verge of hurting herself...

...He sees hope in the expansion of retail trade and the opportunities it offers for entry-level employment...

...Various uncles and aunts, most of them addicts like his mother, inhabit the rest of the building...

...There remain, however, stupidity and money, both of which were present in abundance...

...The president of the United States,” the reporter announced, “sent a message to the mayor of Baltimore in a matter of minutes...

...Siegel’s view of all these problems is essentially a backward-looking one...

...Issues of race and ethnicity continue to roil the civic body politic, but demagoguing these issues has begun to backfire as a political technique...

...In his concluding chapter, Siegel offers an odd metaphor, taken from Evelyn Waugh‘s Brideshead Revisited...

...President Reagan, who signed the bill, believed-among many strange things-that the national defense budget consisted of free money that could be spent at no cost to the taxpayer...

...Flink has produced a valuable, well-written, and magnificently researched book...

...Who would wish for that...

...To the extent that things have changed on the corner in three decades, it has not been for the better...

...The desire to be a person in his own right, to be noticed by the world he lives in, is shared by each of the men on the street corner,” Liebow wrote, of the men he studied on a clxner in Washington, D.C...

...And the future is happening all the time...

...New York went badly down hill during those years and is on the rise again...

...Southwood, to which Christy’s parents entrusted their daughter on the advice of a psychiatrist, proved to be a sort of malevolent Wonderland, full of criminally greedy administrators and inexperienced counselors whose ineptitude might have seemed comical had not the stakes for the Scheck family been so high-and the outcome so tragic...

...Bing clearly believes Christy invented these charges to punish her parents, and presents overwhelming evidence that, whatever Bob Scheck‘s faults, he was no child molester...

...That is why he sees the “sentinel under siege” but undoubtedly prays that it can still find a way to “triumph” over its current “troubles...

...What Siegel seems to be suffering from is a terminal case of nostalgia, for a time that never was...

...Paper trails suddenly stop...

...At one point, he quotes the elder statesman George Kennan as saying in 1993 that television is only capable of “fleeting, disjointed visual glimpses of real- b ity, flickering on and off the screen, here today and gone tomorrow...

...DeAndre’s mother is one of these...

...The free press,” Flink writes, “is facing a time of crisis...

...Nor is Siegel blind to the Eailings of the new generation of reformers, who he wishes would lead us back into ancient d paths of virtue...

...Journalist LCon Iiing’s book, A Wrongfkl Death: One Child’s Encounter With Public Health ana’ Private Greed, unsparingly recounts Southwood’s deplorable handling of Christy Scheck‘s case and raise...

...That’s what I am...

...There was a certain amount of sex attached to the S&L scandal, but not in a way that was important to anyone but the participants...

...From the moment Christy was admitted, Southwood’s inexperienced and profit-driven staff seemed determined to drive a wedge between her and her parents by supporting the notion that the parents were to blame for Christy’s illness...

...Moreover, given the affectless tone of the prose, the resulting unedifying spectacle resembles a seminar of earnest graduate students trying to remember the periodic table in the middle of a bombing raid...

...Finally, Calavita and company have missed everything of importance...

...His efforts this particular evening bring a halt to the dealing on the corners-for exactly as long as he’s there...

...As economies and as polities these cities have been battered by the events of the last quarter century, and they have suffered their share of self-inflicted wounds...

...As Harvey Brooks has observed, “Projections are surprise-free...

...In similarly cautious prose, Calavita et al...

...the future is surprise-rich...

...Milken’s captive S & Ls would buy them...

...These days, they stand on the corner caressing their bankrolls- “begging for the attentions of a knocker [plainclothes cop] or stickup artist...

...Selling drugs has become a “rite of passage’’ throughout inner-city Baltimore...

...One day Thoreau was approached by a reporter with the breathless news that a new technology called the telegraph had just been tested successfully...

...O'Shea's The Dairy Chain, and others...

...And he complains about the deinstitutionalization of mental patients (has he forgotten the exposCs of Willowbrook...

...Specifically, they make an effort to count the number of S&L crooks, the number of S&L crooks who were brought to book, and the time the convicted crooks actually spent in the cooler...

...Throughout the book, Flink fmds himself grappling with one of the most contentious issues in journalism: Should the news provide people with what they ought to know or what they want to know...

...Perhaps we should not be too harsh on Calavita and her colleagues for their lack of awareness in this concern...

...Who would choose that for their life...

...Although he takes a more positive view of the incumbent mayors in New York and Los Angeles, he notes Giuliani’s “expert[ise] in the art of turning would-be allies into enemies,” and Riordan’s inability to articulate a consistent vision...

...But in the end it is the complexities of the Scheck story that make it so compelling...

...he should be thinking about tomorrow...

...Bing’s only missteps in A Wrongfill Death involve her tendency to ramble...

...The beans were...

...In this place only, they know what they are, why they are, and what it is that they are :supposed to do...

...But people are dropping dead at a young age all around him- - from bullets, overdoses, and the Bug...

...provided by a federal agency that remarkably few serious investigators trust any farther than they can throw it...

...Others slink into abandoned, urine-stinking row- houses to fire home their dope...

...Siegel is at his sharpest in describing the limitations of individual leaders-the righteousness of John Lindsay, the cynicism of Ed Koch, the timorousness of Da.vid Dinkins, the laissez faire demagogy of Sam Yorty, and the complete abdication of responsibility by Marion Barry...

...Simon and Burns give us full portraits instead of caricatures, the result of their willingness to stay close to their subjects for more than a year...

...But the comer offers more than money, the authors write...

...Los Angeles 30 years ago was on the verge of a major riot...

...Intransigent naiveti, blindness to inevitable consequences, cowardice in the face of bullying and corruptionall of these sins are laid out in convincing detail in Fred Siegel’s new book...

...When DeAndre ends up on the corner, slinging packages and vials, is it really that surprising...

...Southwood’s parent company, National Medical Enterprises (NME), ran 76 hospitals around the country, and the problems were by no means limited to one hospital...

...Uninsured families were sloughed off on publicly funded pmgrams or free clinics...

...ombudsmen should have vastly increased clout within their organizations...

...STEVE BOGIRA writes about crime and poverty for the Chicago Reader...

...At Drexel Burnham Lambert, Milken was running arguably the largest known extortion ring in American-and perhaps world-history...

...As a result of charges that Bob Scheck abused both daughters, Molly was moved to a foster home for a time...

...He knows every inch of his beat, and most of the players by name...

...An overly long preface oddly recounts Bing’s own high-flying life on the fringes of the Southern California cocaine trade during the early 1980s, leading to a brief stint as an orderly in a psychiatric hospital...

...Hospitalization typically lasted until the insurance ran out...

...It does not occur to them that much of their database-the one provided by the Resolution Trust Corporation-is laughably flawed...

...Gaunt figures stumble down to the corners to cop...

...Davis FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, Big Money Crime by academics Kitty Calavita, Henry N. Pontell, and Robert H. Tillman is a curious book...

...As one way of turning the press away from hype and sensationalism and toward a more balanced, nuanced, and reflective style of reporting, Flink presents a set of proposals designed to help the press make a mid-course correction before the government, egged on by a dissatisfied populace, takes steps to constrain its everyday activities...

...Flink is not one for “lite news...

...DeAndre makes money quickly on the corner, and spends it just as fast, on namebrand clothes, marijuana, and Happy Meals...

...In their examination of these characters, the authors have also done no original work, instead relying on the usual sources: Pizzo, Fricker, and Muolo's Inside Job...

...As often happens where matters of national policy are concerned, the niche for these white-coated sleaze bags grew from the best intentions...

...Alas, when they actually do buckle down to work, their data-much of it obtained from the Resolution Trustis seriously flawed...

...Thoreau considered the news carefully and then asked, “What did the president say...

...Although the reasons for its rise are not readily discernible, they are probably located in the shifting currents of commerce...

...And, as the authors themselves discovered, the RX was a very nervous place...

...Flink, who has worked for Life, CBS, and NBC, is clearly of the view that television hurts rather than helps the s process of informing the public...

...Even officer Bob Brown, a legendary drug buster in West Baltimore, makes but a momentary impact...

...have discovered that the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s was, at bottom, the largest financial fraud in American history...

...At another point, he quotes the late president of the University of Chicago, Robert Maynard Hutchins, as describing in 1951 a gloomy future in which there would be “nobody speaking and nobody reading...

...Then, as a last insult to the Schecks, attendants phoned doctors, staff, even insurance companies, before letting the family know an hour later that their daughter had been discovered near death...

...Flink‘s proposals focus primarily on the need for more and better education-for journalists to be given time and resources to go back to school to learn more about public policy...

...The debate over legalization of drugs misses the point that The Corner makes clear...

...They convey the essence of history...

...Milken is undergoing a wonderful rehabilitation by the members of the academy, and, as previously noted, the authors lean heavily on academic sources...

...We may all be absorbed with flickering images on televisions, but words, he stresses, are “the voices of memory...

...On the grounds of an English manor house occupied by the British Army during World War 11, Waugh is surprised to find that the soldiers are “quietly rediscovering” an abandoned chapel...

...It’s time to go back to square one, they say, to “shed our fied perceptions” and take a fresh look at the problem “from the inside...

...Saving the Sentinel by Marvin Kalb MY FAVORITE STORY FROM this thoroughly absorbing book concerns the eminent 19th-century transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau...

...When Ed Gray, Wall’s predecessor as Bank Board chairman and a Reagan appointee, attempted to alert the nation to the fact that knaves and thieves were stealing haystacks of money, Chief of Staff Rep tried to have him arrested...

...With the help of treatment programs, DeAndre’s mother, Fran, manages to get clean sometimes...

...Higher ethical standards should be emphasized, fairness and evenhandedness in copy stressed...

...Community policing and the exhaustion of citizens‘ patience with public disorder have altered the debate over public order...

...In this sense, he is riding against the tide of powerful forces in contemporary American journalism, for whom the bottom line is the bottom line...

...they want a better life for themselves and their kin...

...The author insists on offering complex, distracting descriptions of even the most ancillary characters...

...Anyone undertaking a serious examination of the RTC will discover that something went badly wrong in there...

...Reviving the economy of the big cities is recognized as the major problem of governance...

...For example, which news organizations are prepared to bankroll these reforms...

...In other times and other places, more honorable men have put the matter more clearly: “Pay or die...

...With mothers as well as fathers addicted, discussions about single-parent families in the inner city have become dated, Simon and Burns point out, as vast numbers of children today are 5n reality, parentless...

...These are the families, after all, who are most in need of competent care...

...The author, unsurprisingly, comes down on the side of “ought to know...

...Corner...

...The subtitle suggests its scope-a tour of the triumphs and troubles, the bumpy contours of American journalism, from its protected origins in the Bill of Rights to the bustling uncertainties of the current world of mega-mergers, collapsing professional ethics, ferocious competition, and the World Wide Web...

...Lost in thought after holding DeAndre’s son--Gary’s first grandchild-for the first time, Gary says: “When you’re ycung, you think about what it is that you want to beyou think of all the things there is...

...DesDite billions spent mainly on cops and prisons, the dealing on inner-city streets persists...

...None of this is in the book, although it should be...

...Indeed it is, and one reason appears to be the rise of television as “the preponderant news source” for the overwhelming majority of Americans...

...DeAndre lives with his mother and younger brother in an 8’ x 10’ room in a three-story rowhouse...

...To her credit, Bing focuses instead on the more complex story of a young girl who actually needed hospitalization and quality psychiatric care...

...Maybe he’d think more about his future if it were clear he had one...

...Such goals may sound elitist, even unrealistic, in today’s stormy seas...

...Jake Garn, the other author of the bill and a figure glancingly mentioned, was regarded by many of his legislative colleagues-for excellent reasons-as a world-class nut...

...now it’s often “some manchild with hurt feelings waving a .380 around and spraying bullets up and down the block,” with bystanders paying the price...

...Presidential Chief of Staff Donald Regan and budget director David Stockman believed that the best way to remove the government from the groaning back of the people was to abolish or reduce the police forces, particularly the Postal Inspection Service and the regulators at the Bank Board, which they did...

...Father Bob Scheck, a heman with a military background and a strong desire for a son, delighted in Christy’s youthful athleticism but apparently recoiled as she began to develop into a young woman...

...Yet though Brown has “fought tenaciously, clearing corners, herding fiends, chasing slingers, and arresting hundreds every year,” Simon and Burns say, the working-class neighborhood where he began his career has become “little more than a collection of open-air drug markets and crumbling shooting galleries.’’ Brown descends on the neighborhood one evening, filling his wagon with a halfdozen corner denizens...

...Here is the fruit of their labors...

...The more flamboyant criminals, such as Keating, were brought to book, but other, perhaps more cunning, perhaps better connected, and certainly less conspicuous, slipped the net...

...DAW is a contributing editor of Harper’s magazine and a contributing writer to Mother Jones...

...Looking: Backwards by Adam Yarmolinsky IT IS ALWAYS SALUTARY TO BE reminded of our mistakes...

...Her epilogue, meanwhile, strays from the psychiatric system by indicting the American medical system as a whole-raising too many issues in too short a space...

...Siegel’s thesis is that our big cities, and specifically New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, have been going to hell in a handbasket because their leaders have squandered their resources on welfare bureaucracies, neglected public order, splintered civic unity over issues of race and ethnicity, and ignored the market economy...

...Before the meeting had even started,” they recount, “the senior official burst into the room...

...Echoing the argument advanced decades ago by Walter Lippmann, Flink cites the continuing need for the highest quality journalism, even if it is only for the comparative few who still demand it...

...Here, they almost matter...

...Of all this, the authors are ignorant...

...Which is what Simon and Burns give us in telling detail in The Comer, a look at drug dealing on the streets of West Baltimore, told from the point of view of the users and dealers themselves...

...S-uperficial & L-azy by L.J...

...Stanley E. Flink, the author of Sentinel Under Siege, and a former journalist who is now an adjunct associate professor at New York University, uses the story to underscore the continuing importance of words in journalism and history...

...Considering the speed with which these books were written, many of the authors did an astoundingly good job, but they did not have the luxury of time and reflection, supposedly one of the perks of the scholarly trade...

...This strategy was “to quickly make the budget cuts that would both restore fiscal balance and make targeted but substantial business tax cuts possible...

...L.J...

...The Corner Drugstore by Steve Bogira WHAT IS CLEAR ABOUT THE drug war is that nothing so far has worked...

...He is surely what police officials and neighborhood associations have in mind when they proffer community policing as the newest weapon against crime...