LA Times teaser for a story about developments in Iraq:
10 U.S. TROOPS DIE;
OIL DEAL MAY BE NEAR
Teaser from the front page of Sunday’s LA Times for a story about Iraq:
10 U.S. TROOPS DIE;
OIL DEAL MAY BE NEAR
Maybe that’s an anti-war copy editor enaging in a little bit of poitical satire, but it’s probably just a bit of carelessness. The story reports both the deaths and progress in the Iraqi Parliament toward a deal on sharing out the oil revenues.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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