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...sort of a rising star really,” Gordon said. Gordon said the location of an arts facility in Allston was essential to creating a rich and varied campus life across the river. “It’s a good first step into Allston because arts tend to have more of an interface with the community,” Gordon said. “It’s a nice thing to have, for lack of a better word.” —Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached at nsherman@fas.harvard.edu...
...other cases, the problem is the judges. Certain judges tend to set very low or no bail for defendants, especially in drug cases, the commission report concluded. "The vast majority of our judges are good men and women, thank God, who do a tough job. They're inundated with cases," says Goyeneche, a former prosecutor. "[But] a small percentage are doing a disservice to the community and putting people at risk. Corruption explains some of it, also burnout and just callousness...
When I spoke to criminologist Blumstein about what happened in Houston after Katrina, he was not surprised to hear that evacuees were killing one another in a different place. "People who kill one another tend to be people who are like one another," he said. But he was intrigued to hear that the Houston police had noticed such a cultural difference. In that difference, he said, is hope. "Maybe there's a lesson here for how the New Orleans system ought to start shaping...
...autistic children struggle to speak is something of a mystery. Many autistic children learn to speak late and only with intensive language therapy. Some never learn. This is not true, however, of those with Asperger's syndrome, a milder form of autism. Children with Asperger's tend to be almost hyperfluent-or as one such child put it to me in an interview, "I talk like a dictionary...
...that increased income is no measure of well-being. The acceptance of criminal behavior?murder, rape and arson?that has come with the acceptance of a confrontational two-party system means that well-being is lower today than it was under autocracy. That's not surprising: democratization and violence tend to go together. Indeed, the connection between democracy and violence is an ancient one: Thucydides and Plato were the first to put it forward. Iftekhar Sayeed Dhaka...