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...could influence the outcome of specific cases. For ten years this civil restriction has throttled coverage of a poignant and important story: the long legal fight, still proceeding in the courts, over damages to be paid to those crippled by the drug thalidomide. The London Sunday Times has now torn apart the gag rule, setting up a classic court v. press conflict...
...ransacking of the Bureau of Indian Affairs by 600-odd Indian militants who gathered in Washington to demonstrate for needed changes in federal policy is another indication that the old era of pride has given way to a new-and surprisingly delayed-period of violent protest. Offices were torn apart, furniture was smashed, the walls were covered with aerosol-can graffiti; typewriters, books and some 600 paintings were simply stolen. Now that the full extent of the damage has been revealed ($2,280,000 worth, by the Government's reckoning), moderate Indian leaders are outraged and fearful...
...idea of defensible space first emerged back in 1964, when I was part of a team of architects and sociologists who were studying why the notorious Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis was being torn apart by the people who lived in it. Every public area-the lobbies, the laundries and mail rooms-was a mess, literally. There was human excrement in the halls. Except in one small area on each floor of each building. You had to go through a fire door and then you were in a little hallway separating two apartments. This little hall...
...time in the early sixties, South Shore indeed had a good academic reputation, but the surrounding neighborhood was racially changing and the school's caliber deteriorated as the streets were increasingly torn by violence. The institutional racism of the Chicago Board of Education meant less funding and fewer experienced teachers for a school that was becoming all-black, and South Shore rapidly became just another inner-city school...
...since--like many freshmen--he didn't get out of school until 4:30 p.m., the freshman coach made him a second string quarterback. Tyrell would dress in the rag-tag equipment money-pinched city schools give to their football players, and with strips of tape dangling from his torn jersey and practice pants, scramble all over the field looking for non-existent receivers after the first string had run through its routine...