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Exploiting this dire need for more jail beds, enlightened corrections officers like Rufo are pushing for "direct supervision" of prisoners, a concept that requires new functional designs. These, in turn, have inspired a creative breed of architects and builders who are capitalizing on the challenge of building facilities that provide the kinds of living spaces that officers can properly manage. "Besides requiring fewer officers to run," argues Rufo, these New Age facilities "cut down on fights, assaults, vandalism and workmen's compensation cases. Most important, they take control of the prison out of the hands of the inmates...
...fundamentalist movement. The way they interpret their religion allows them to do things or to justify to themselves doing things that any normal reading of the Koran would find insane or evil. I've read the Koran; I'm not an Islamic scholar, but the words and the concept seem to me fairly plain, and they're not all that different from Christianity at base...
...whole concept of putting Gorbachev in the ARCO Forum...instead of someplace like Sanders which seats 1200 is ridiculous," said Duncan. "They could just put a Kennedy School banner behind him in Sanders and that would take care of their institutional prestige," he said...
...1970s, college graduates started to choose journalism as a career, changing the face and nature of the industry. Tom Wolfe and the New Journalists invented the concept of non-fiction literature, newspaper and magazine writing that was actually good prose...
HERE, IN THE PARLANCE OF HOLlywood, is a high-concept idea. Bill McKibben, a contributor to the New Yorker and author of The End of Nature, decided to take a look at what television tells us -- and doesn't tell us -- about the world we live in. So he set up two representative days. For one 24-hour period, he taped and watched every minute of programming (more than 2,000 hours' worth) on all 93 channels in the Fairfax County, Va., cable system. On the other day, he lolled around a pond and did some hiking in the Adirondack...