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...strict, no matter how lenient, seems to have much impact on the crime rate. But prison does at least keep criminals off the street. Home confinement cannot guarantee that security. Some data, tentative and incomplete, do suggest, however, that felons placed on intensive probation are less likely to commit crimes again than those placed on traditional probation or sent to prison. Joan Petersilia, a Rand Corp. researcher, says the recidivism rate of such offenders is impressively low, "usually less than 20%." And many keep their jobs, she adds. "That's the real glimmer of hope -- that in the long...
...before that, Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa suddenly flew to Washington for a private 2 1/2-hour chat with Baker. The only visible result of their efforts was a four-paragraph communique that affirmed the two countries' "willingness to cooperate on exchange-rate issues." Translation: the U.S. would not explicitly commit itself to propping up the drooping dollar. One reason: the currency's decline makes imports more expensive and thus can help reduce the trade deficit...
...Oregon; in Guadalajara, Mexico, writing 400 pages of a novel; back to Yale, then dropping out a second and last time to concentrate on his writing. The book was now 1,400 pages. "It started out as a boy's suicide note -- not that I was going to commit suicide, but I was very depressed. It was Jack London- type experiences in a Joycean style. Totally insane, with great passages of lyricism here and there. I thought it was the best thing since Rimbaud. And when Simon & Schuster rejected it, I gave up. I threw half the manuscript...
...picture Kirkland paints of the dance world is a dim one. In the New York City Ballet, dancers commit their bodies and hearts solely to their art. The late George Balanchine--the undeniable father of American ballet--insisted that his dancers be reed thin, without hips or breasts to detract from the line of the arms and legs...
Around them, the victory-drunk B.C. Eagles danced with joy, happy to escape with an 87-86 victory at home, happy that the Crimson had neglected to commit an intentional foul in the last 12 seconds, just plain happy...