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...crime wave. In the first four days of their operation, the police made 150 arrests In doing so, they stopped and questioned more than 1,000 people, invoking Britain's 150-year-old Sus (for suspect) law. The statute allows the police to question and even detain random suspects if there is reason to believe they may be planning to commit a crime. Overuse of the Sus law is a frequent complaint, not only in Brixton but elsewhere in the country. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to be arrested under the law, and black community leaders...
...terrain of actuality. Luck is, by definition, mysterious, a force that may really be the clunkingly erratic, everyday version of the divine mind. Luck is God in a scatterbrained and even amoral mood, with his sense of justice out of commission. Or, agnostically, luck is the collision of the random with human biography; naturally, human intelligence resents and resists the inexplicable random, and so attributes it to imps, dybbuks, wood sprites, gods of the volcano-all the subdeities of jinx...
...denies that eleventh-hour filing can help beat the odds in audit roulette. Says Spokesman Larry Batdorf:"The computer does not select tax forms for audit at random. It is programmed to pick out certain kinds of forms regardless of who files them or when they are filed." The IRS also says that it does not make any effort to gear up for an unusual mid-April landslide...
EVERYTHING WE HAD by Al Santoli; Random House; 265 pages...
...urban areas, the argument in the past has been that surrounding structures preclude solar energy," Shapiro said this week. The study, which looked at a random sampling of buildings in the Boston area, concludes that "physical accessibility to sunlight should not, per se, prevent substantial application of solar technologies in urban areas such as Boston...