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...looks awful," the public should withhold judgment until investigations are done. "What you're seeing is the last 28 sec. of a 20-min. car chase during which a police officer was shot." For now, 12 officers have been placed on administrative duty, eight who were involved in the gunplay and four who were seen kicking Jones. The Justice Department has commenced its own review. Congressional Black Caucus leaders have called the incident another example of the "epidemic" of police brutality sweeping the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unnecessary Force? | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...begin this letter by getting personal. I was just wondering if you people leave the house anymore--something that seems to be increasingly unnecessary these days, a hundred years ago. Not that leaving the house is always a good idea. Outside lies the wide and brittle world of wars, gunplay, scandal, disease, superstition, categorical hatreds, willful ignorance, envy, pettiness and cant. In your perfected age, all such things undoubtedly have been eradicated. (How I wish I could hear your laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter To The Year 2100 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

Everybody who wants to hear yet another sorry story about gangsta rappers and gunplay, stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arrested Development | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...WEST WING (NBC) Attention, networks: There is dramatic life outside precinct houses and hospital wards. Aaron Sorkin's White House series is a love story of people and their jobs that overcomes its speechifying tendencies and tics (half the action takes place as characters stalk down corridors) with verbal gunplay, public-policy triage and an appealing lack of cynicism--about, of all things, politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Best Television Of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

This hip-hop duo, like many other hard-core rap groups, writes songs about urban violence, street bravado, felonious gunplay, "baby fathers" and friends slain young. The music beneath Mobb Deep's lyrics, however, is oddly restful. The contrast between the jagged lyrics and the smooth rhythms that propel them gives the group's new record a thoughtful quality and a hard-to-resist listenability. One feels immersed and insulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Murda Muzik | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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