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...Mexicans have come to see police corruption and complicity in crime as a way of life. Last week, an entire family was found murdered in Jalisco, in what state authorities say was a botched kidnapping involving a policeman serving in an anti-kidnapping unit. Says Alejandro Gertz Manero, Dean of the University of the Americas and a former attorney general, "There is a collusion of the criminals with the police, and what is the worst is that there is impunity - 99% of the cases go unsolved. So there is only a 1% chance of being caught, and even then, probably...
...Somehow, it seems futile to say. "Maybe it?s just the lack of a recovery that?s wearing everybody out," investment strategist Frank Gertz says quotably in this weeks? TIME, and TSTW couldn?t agree more - especially when it comes to himself. Here?s another take, albeit an unintentionally metaphorical one, on the drab and seemingly endless status quo, courtesy of the NYT?s Buster Olney in Monday?s New York Times sports section (metaphor-wrecking phrases excised...
...politicos looking for background reading, try Jimmy Carter's childhood memoir "An Hour Before Daylight." And the love-it-or-hate-it attack on the Clinton administration's approach to China, "The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America" by Bill Gertz" was sent in by a reader who also recommends "Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department" by David Limbaugh...
DIED. ELMER GERTZ, 93, crusading Chicago civil rights attorney who helped Nathan Leopold, accused with Richard Loeb of young Bobby Franks' murder in 1924's "Crime of the Century," win parole in 1958; defended Henry Miller's explicit novel Tropic of Cancer against censorship; and overturned the murder conviction of Lee Harvey Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
...Coop has a much higher return rate than many bookstores, about 30 percent, Mooney said. According to Gertz, the BC bookstore's return rate is about two-thirds of that amount...