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...have also been accused of abusing suspects - the government recently ordered police to undergo a five-month retraining program because of an alarming number of high-profile deaths of prisoners in the nation's jails - the violence attributed to the chengguan is seen as more galling because of the pedestrian nature of their responsibilities. Yet they themselves face threats too. "Street vendors are also using violence to fight against chengguan," He says. "Some have even formed mafia-like societies." On April 8 a city-management officer in the southern city of Shenzhen was stabbed to death by a vendor from...
...Modern Wing from Millennium Park by way of a slender pedestrian bridge that rises to deposit visitors onto a rooftop sculpture terrace that's free of charge. But to be admitted to the galleries, which on most days have an admission fee, you enter at ground level. What you find there is a three-story, glass-roofed atrium, a long processional space that's flanked on the left by a freestanding stairway that zigzags up to galleries on the second and third floors. On the right, temporary exhibition galleries occupy the first floor, with design and architecture above them...
...actually forgive his father's failings or at least laugh about them (though there is an element of Oedipal assassination in this lovingly unflattering portrait). The poetry of Losing Mum and Pup--and it has some--arises from the fact that even extraordinary people are not exempt from the pedestrian, democratic reality of death. When Christopher complains about his father's driving, his aunt says wryly, "Don't you understand? The rules don't apply to him." But in the end, they...
...billion in exports went south from the U.S., while some $21 billion of imports came north, according to the Texas Center for Border Economy and Enterprise Development at Texas A&M International University. In Brownsville alone, in the first two months of this year, there were 297,478 legal pedestrian crossings north and 284,662 legal southbound crossings. Personal-vehicle crossings were almost double that number. Almost 4 million passenger vehicles crossed each way between Texas cities and their sister communities in Mexico in the first two months of this year, while almost half a million trucks headed south...
4/14/09 2:27 p.m.—Harvard University Police Department officers were dispatched to assist Boston Police Department officers with a motor vehicle accident. Officers were informed that a vehicle hit a pedestrian who received injuries to the hand and foot and was transported to a medical facility. 4/15/09 1:29 p.m.—An officer was dispatched to the area of Boylston Street and Park Drive in Boston to assist state police with an individual who was attempting to break into another individual’s residence. The officer reported that the individual was placed under arrest...