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...Editor's Note: The authors are professors at Dartmouth Colloge. This letter was also signed by 21 other Dartmouth College professors...
Fast-buck artists take note: get yourself arrested in New York City, and you could be $150 to the good if you're kept in the slammer for a night without proper amenities. That is precisely how much U.S. District Judge Morris Lasker last week ordered the city's correction department to pay every suspect kept for more than 24 hours in a holding pen that rates below minimal standards. The unusual decision culminates more than a decade of feuding between Lasker and the city over the condition of its jail cells, many of which do not have beds...
Correction officials admit to sanitary violations but claim there is little they can do. They contend that the jail population is subject to sudden surges in arrests and note that the opening of a new 850-bed facility is running behind schedule. "Paying arrestees $150 is outrageous," said city council president Andrew Stein, "and rewards potential criminals...
...antiapartheid movement has taken note of Afrikaner angst, but is not necessarily impressed. "No one in a high position has actually said they are sorry for all the hurt they have caused to victims of apartheid," says Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "We blacks, for our part, are ready to forgive. But the other party must be contrite and ready to do reparation. Your contrition will be demonstrated by your willingness to make amends. We cannot just say, 'Let bygones be bygones...
...come up with dramatic foreign policy initiatives. But despite the danger to oil supplies, critical for a country that imports virtually all its crude, the public considers the gulf too far away to be a threat. Japan has pledged $4 billion to the coalition -- an amount that, U.S. critics note, is far less than the $6 billion Matsushita paid last week to acquire...