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...show--though one that, unlike those on network TV, suggests that not only cops but their objectives as well can be flawed. When Detective James McNulty (Dominic West) pursues a drug kingpin in the Baltimore projects, he's undermined by higher-ups who want quick, low-level "buy and bust" stings to generate p.r., not the painstaking investigation required to ensnare the bosses. The series also plumbs the Byzantine world of the criminals, focusing on D'Angelo Barksdale (Larry Gilliard Jr.), a midlevel captain who wants to rise in his organization but questions its pointless violence...
Although Newman said the layoffs were carefully considered and had affected low-level, mid-level and senior positions, some have charged that the school has unfairly targeted the administrative staff rather than looking for other cost-saving measures...
...disease, according to a study presented last week at an American Heart Association meeting. Stay-at-home dads had an 82% higher 10-year death rate than men who worked outside the home, and high-powered women had almost three times the risk of heart disease of those in low-level jobs...
...recent years, public health officials have stressed that bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, in part because of everyday exposure to low-level antibiotics in anti-bacterial soap...
...justified if it could save thousands? According to a CNN/USA Today poll last fall, 45% of Americans surveyed supported torture to prevent attacks. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has endorsed the issuance of "torture warrants" in the rarest of instances. While ethicists remain squeamish at the prospect of torturing low-level al-Qaeda recruits who probably aren't privy to life-sparing information, the stakes may be different in Zubaydah's case. Anthony D'Amato, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law who has defended a doctor charged with genocide, finds torture legally reprehensible but sees some moral wiggle...