We believe the best way to do this is through a combination of tough enforcement and education, such as the No Knives Better Lives campaign and the work of Violence Reduction Unit to tackle the root causes of violence and end this blight on our communities.

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His demands remain that there will be no meaningful Israeli withdrawal until there is a "total end" to Palestinian violence, root-and-branch reform of the PA's police forces and the removal of Mr Arafat as PA leader.

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As you might imagine, there were some very colorful characters and cunning schemes at the root of it all, but in the end, there was a need to create a central banking authority to assure that severe incidents like this would not occur again.

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He also pledged to end no-bid contracts in Iraq, root out waste and abuse in entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, require every Cabinet member to scrub department budgets "line by line, " and reinstate a "pay as you go" rule from the 1990s.

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It requires each of us to act responsibly in our own lives, and it requires all of us to look inward -- to ask not only how we can end this scourge, but also how we can root out the inequities and the attitudes on which this scourge thrives.

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At the southern end of the growing range, the trees are thriving and hundreds of saplings are taking root.

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