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...against Wall Street are like stopping someone speeding on a highway," he says. "The other cars slow down for a while, and then, after a certain number of miles, they speed up again. The question is, How many miles before they start speeding again?" Our hero, the "Caped Highway Cop," awaits...
...Order to the orange DANGER!-DANGER!-DANGER! graphics of Connie Chung Tonight and the rest of its cable-news cohort. (Curiously, from the news media's perspective, little girls miraculously stopped being abducted as soon as the Washington sniper drew his first bead.) Some dozen-and-a-half cop shows dominated prime-time series TV, not counting the numerous cable crime series and a steady stream of increasingly popular reality shows like Forensic Files. The result was a feedback loop of fear in a society that was not experiencing any crime wave except this virtual one: crime news begat crime...
...much of a stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart. FX's cop drama The Shield introduced Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), a crooked, brutal--and extremely effective--L.A. cop, and left it up to us to decide whether his results justified his means. HBO's The Wire used the story of a single Baltimore drug investigation as a parable for the crisis...
HOSPITALIZED. ZSA ZSA GABOR, 85, Hungarian grande dame famous for her eight marriages, fewer good movie roles and a 1989 conviction for slapping a Beverly Hills, Calif., cop; in serious condition after suffering a head injury in a car crash; in Los Angeles...
...some of us tried, and are still trying. Eminem's generation seems to be saying in a variety of ways "The world sucks," but these people don't appear to be interested in trying to do anything about it. To suggest that no one can change anything is a cop-out. Any situation that has been changed had someone working on it. ELLEN BAILEY Indianapolis