A. We have to take crime very seriously.

It took organized crime over a generation to recover from that, but drugs were still prohibited, even picayune stuff like pot.

"You take crime and air and water issues and other such things - they know no boundaries."

"The problem with the draft is that it doesn't take crime seriously enough."

Furthermore, the claim that those who take crime seriously are demanding changes in black manhood or culture is a straw man at best.

This is not the first time, of course, that Mr. Mamet has taken organized crime and gangsters as his subject.

Instead they take serious crime as a pre- and state-defined phenomenon.

Take crime: yes, government's got a huge role.

Let's see," he said as it scrolled across the screen, "she took a female offenders class, research methods, crime and justice.

In short, the lines between giving assistance and taking advantage, crime and survival, are all being blurred nearly four weeks after the tsunami hit.