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Ben-Gurion was determined to snuff out any remaining embers of the Irgun and the Lechi, and he convinced the cabinet to give him broad powers to end acts of terrorism, including administrative detention without trial. The era of the Jewish underground,…

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James Q. Wilson and George Kelling

Brenner, complex though he was, was perhaps the cultural icon of the Second Aliyah. His work, still considered brilliant, surfaced issues with which Israel continues to wrestle. He would have undoubtedly done even more than he managed in his brief life, but he was murdered by an Arab mob in the 1921 Jaffa riots.

This reveals the ultimate function of cities: cities are social reactors, places where interactions among many different strangers can be realized and sustained. Ultimately, it is this accelerating dynamic that creates the buzz of a great city.

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megalopolis endured three of the ten most costly national disasters since the Civil War.

It was left, then, to cast Sharpton, and for Sharpton to cast himself, as the Outrageous Nigger, the familiar role—assigned sixty years ago to Father Divine and thirty years later to Adam Clayton Powell—of the essentially manageable fraud whose first concern is his own well-being.

The large-scale demolitions of public housing complexes was both expensive and disruptive to the people living in them, but it provided a unique opportunity to learn what happens to crime when these complexes are demolished. In the case of Chicago, the housing authority demolished nearly 22,000 units of high-rise public housing and relocated affect