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Last summer Miller announced that if the incidence of rape, robbery, burglary and auto theft dropped 3%, everyone on the force would get a 1% salary boost. A 6% reduction would translate into a 2% pay increase; after that, each 2% drop would earn a 1% bonus. The maximum increase the cops can get is 5%. "Currently, we're down 17% for those four crimes," says Police Chief Merrill Duncan. "The men are working harder and our crime-prevention program has greatly expanded." Felony arrests are up 40%, and police diligence has even extended to traffic, reducing accidents...
...surrounding the Yard, the structure of the Houses, and the design of most of the campus seem to have captured the traditional atmosphere associate with Harvard, they do little to prevent Cambridge's crime problem from becoming Harvard's problem, too--Harvard is battling serious security problems. Losses from theft amounted to about $140,690 for the 1974 academic year as opposed to $96,061 for 1973. Last year Harvard spent more than $1 million on security. This year's sum will definitely be greater...
...statement from the humor club last night said that tipsters late last week offered information regarding the statue to authorities investigating, the Fogg Museum coin theft of April...
...there was something suspicious about Ilarion Capucci. Driving his black Mercedes-Benz, he crossed from Israel into Jordan and Lebanon at least 50 times in the past year. Last April he claimed that more than $750,000 in cash was stolen from his Jerusalem residence. When police investigated the theft, Capucci insisted that the money had been returned, and asked them to drop the matter. His behavior seemed particularly strange because he is an archbishop of the Melchite Catholic Church (which is autonomous from but in union with Roman Catholicism, and recognizes the Pope as premier patriarch) and vicar...
...victor, K'ang-hsi tempered justice with shrewd compassion and love of discrimination. He changed a horse thief's sentence from beheading to exile, since "the nation was at peace and horse theft was therefore not so serious as it would have been in time of war." His dealings with the West were open and generous, yet appropriately wary. He allowed selected Jesuits to preach their faith in China and introduce scientific and technical learning. But when the Pope sent a sort of watchdog emissary to keep an eye on his Jesuit scholars, K'ang-hsi threw...