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The New Year began in Britain with an initiative from the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, designed to combat what many Britons see as an epidemic of anti-social behavior, particularly on the part of young people. Titled "Respect Action Plan" or RAP,--the usefulness of the acronym will become apparent presently--it proposed increased police powers and on-the-spot fines for anti-social behavior, more social and "outreach" workers for "problem families" and classes in parenting, all in the name of increasing the sum-total of "respect" in British society. The example of its absence cited by Mr. Blair was of someone "spitting at an old lady on her way to the shops'-- something ...