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...healthy enough to drive himself home. I'm waiting outside as Bob and others try to convince the old man to go to the hospital when a policeman approaches me. "He'd be crazy not to go," he informs me. "He's got to go," I concur, but the cop becomes defensive. "I can't make him go," he retorts. The cop thinks I've started an argument about the coercive power of the police. "Of course not," I assure...
After three years of sitting through such mammoth sections, where "discussion" consists of little more than a graduate student playing traffic cop among the sea of raised hands, I am outraged that Harvard has not done more to reduce section size...
Agnew did not remain obscure for long. Every Vice President must invent a life for himself. Nixon and Agnew played good cop-bad cop. Agnew created his role as a menacing though semisatirical rabble-rouser of the much-maligned love-it-or-leave-it Silent Majority of Americans who wished, against their mounting disquiet, to believe in their government's war. The struggle defined itself in cultural conflict. Alabama's Governor George Wallace had gone national as an angry outsider-populist and blue-collar backlasher. Agnew became a kind of insider Establishment populist, attacking "elites," meaning the media and intellectuals...
Both were charged after a six- to eight-week drug investigation by the Harvard University Police Department. Student informers and an undercover cop posing as a student facilitated the investigation...
...acquitted. His father was shot and killed when Tupac was a child. Their son, meanwhile, wrote sensitive poetry while attending the High School of Performing Arts in Baltimore, Maryland. Shakur never entirely ceased extolling black womanhood or elders. Increasingly, however, such lyrics were shouldered aside by the bitches and cop-killing bullets of gangstaism. The dominant persona, says rap reporter Larry Hester, was "a villain, a joker...