BY one measure, at least, violent crime seems to be declining.

"Especially as you lot don't even seem to think it's a crime."

Thus his crime is mine, or may seem so in your father's eyes.

But like tourists, their chief crime seems to be simply being there.

At the very least, a crime of decorum seems to have taken place.

A police official said the crime seemed to have begun as a robbery that went bad.

Her crime seems to be that she simply tried too hard.

Initially, the police said, the crimes had not seemed related.

Even crime, our last major industry, seems to be declining.

Human cloning and hate crimes would seem to have little in common.