Perhaps I should feel a bit guilty about admitting any of this, but I was simply delighted upon reading in the current issue of The Economist that classical music had turned out to be very effective across Britain in dealing with deviant behavior of all sorts (”Twilight of the Yobs,” January 8, 2005). It has been used to dissuade youngsters from hanging around and intimidating customers in front of stores, as well as in controlling loitering and vandalism in underground stations. To my even greater delight, anything sung by Pavarotti or written by Mozart works best. Mozart I can tolerate for a few minutes, but I, too, would get moving as soon as I heard a single yowl from Pavarotti. According to the article, classical music as deterrent is spreading quite fast. There are imitators galore, and the fashion is likely to spread to the rest of Europe. I can well imagine deserted European centers blaring with classical music in the years to come. And there is so much of the horror written in the last couple of hundreds of years.