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Category: American Society
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An excerpt from Geoffrey Canada’s memoir, Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America
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If you get arrested and post bail you’re released from custody… but what if you don’t have the money?
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Danielle Ofri, one of many doctors writing about their experiences with patients, discusses her own approach to ensuring patient privacy.
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Too many kids are faced with draconian punishment under zero-tolerance laws.
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In the terrible wake of the devastating quake in Haiti, we have heard this about long-time Beacon friend and supporter, author Edwidge Danticat, who was interviewed for this story about Haitian-Americans waiting for news of loved ones: Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American author whose books about the country have won the National Book Award and the…
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Liko and I were watching a youth hockey game at the Yerba Buena rink in San Francisco. We were surrounded by fathers watching their boys play hockey… and, man, was it ugly.
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David Chura looks at a recent Department of Justice report that paints a disturbing picture of sexual abuse in juvenile detention centers.
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The American Law Institute recently abandoned its support of the death penalty, but the author of Executed on a Technicality has doubts about how this will affect the state that accounts for almost half of the executions in the U.S.
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Frederick S. Lane makes an immodest proposal for airline safety in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing.
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Danielle Ofri is a physician at Bellevue, a public hospital. Recently, she found herself interacting with Bellevue not as a doctor but rather as the parent of a patient.
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