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...combat crime. First, the President awarded $50 million in grants to communities for the hiring of police officers. These were the first grants in a $150 million program and will help cities hire 100,000 new officers. Clinton also signed the National Child Protection Act, which creates a data base of all indictments and convictions for child abuse, sex offenses, violent crimes and felony drug charges. The information will be available for background checking to those hiring child-care workers...
...young fan base found his style refreshing. Almost 20 years later, Murakami has continued to attract young readers, a fact that he is somewhat baffled about. “Honestly, I don’t know anything about kids,” he says...
...fiction. In an author’s note, Wright forthrightly discloses that “with the dialogue in chapters 3 and 7, some liberties have been taken.” He continues, reassuringly, that “in all important aspects, however, the information in these scenes is based on known facts.” But Wright lets his imagination run wild even outside the confines of the two chapters his note explicitly mentions.Chapter 3 presents a partially fictionalized encounter between two Harvard boys circa 1919 that culminates in a “night of lovemaking...
...Winters and Koocher disagree over the quality of Seidel’s campaign. Winters describes Seidel as “the most credible challenger by far.” Koocher, on the other hand, feels that Seidel is “without a [political] base...
...reaching out to his Republican supporters. Alito looks to be a good beginning; the choice of the Yale Law School grad, who spent a decade working in the Justice Department for both Reagan and the first President Bush, has conservatives excited. In another move to rebuild support among his base, Bush seems now more eager to attack the growth in federal spending. He gave a speech last week calling for spending cuts to help balance the budget and pay for Hurricane Katrina; Congress is expected to debate the issue over the next two weeks. And White House Deputy Chief...