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Faulkner grew up in Philadelphia and married a cop. She was only 24 when he was shot and killed on duty in 1981, and she had to get out of town and start over somewhere else. She ended up in California, and it was going fine until about six years ago. Suddenly, everywhere she turned, she saw her husband's killer. She saw him on T shirts, on posters, on book covers, on television. He'd become an international celebrity, called a hero by some, compared to Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. by others. Maureen Faulkner's crusade...
...City bid-committee principals Tom Welch and Dave Johnson in connection with the $1.2 million in graft that preceded--led to?--Salt Lake's selection by the International Olympic Committee as host of the 2002 Winter Games. The feds went ballistic on Welch and Johnson because they wouldn't cop a plea to bribing I.O.C. members. The two say they're innocent because schmoozing members at the time wasn't against I.O.C. policy--it was I.O.C. policy...
There are already calls for better police training. Tactical mistakes occurred throughout the incident. (Even before the beating, for example, officers left themselves vulnerable to friendly-fire accidents.) But criminal-justice professor and former cop Gene O'Donnell says it's "ludicrous" to expect this kind of arrest to be orderly. "I've seen many tapes about which the media is screaming, 'Look at this! It's brutal!' And I see it and I say, 'No, it's police work.' Police work is brutal, and nobody wants to own up to that." Then again, says Seymore, "I have not seen...
...best it's a dumb adult show that really wants to be a smart kid's show. Manhattan, AZ, the sitcom that follows it (not created by the P&P guys), is gutsier and more promising. It's also about a life change: this time a married undercover L.A. cop becomes a widowed small-town sheriff. Like The War Next Door, it's plenty weird. The pilot's best joke comes midway through, when the main character says he's noticed that his son has changed since his mother died--and the camera pans to show that...
This much we do know: Duchovny, who last year suggested he might not return to the series at all, will be back for 11 episodes, about half the series. Fox just hired a new male lead, Robert Patrick, who will sub for Mulder, playing a cop turned Fed. About six or seven of the 20 or so episodes will be "mythology" installments and the rest stand-alones - the usual stingy ratio. They will be an hour in length and will be punctuated by short films, or "commercials," that encourage viewers to buy consumer goods and services...