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...fame (or ignominy, depending on how you see it), has created for us a confused jumble of bad accents, loud music, stale techno-babble and Richard Gere. The studio swears it's a remake of the 1973 thriller Day Of The Jackal, but this Jackal resembles neither its predecessor nor the Frederick Forsythe novel on which it was based, except that it contains an international terrorist known only as "The Jackal...
...expenditure. Giuliani did the latter. The heart of his anticrime strategy was not more money but a shift in policing strategy. Following George Kelling and James Q. Wilson's now famous "broken windows" model, cops started arresting people for "life-style" offenses like public drunkenness. Giuliani's liberal predecessor David Dinkins couldn't use broken windows to evade the fiscal-austerity dilemma, because it required taking on minority-group leaders and civil libertarians who viewed these arrests as the harassment of African-American and Latino men. Giuliani did, and thereby won the hearts of outer-borough Democrats already hostile...
...famous slogan of Jiang's predecessor, Deng Xiaoping, runs, "It is glorious to get rich." Who is getting rich today in China, and at whose expense? The impressive economic gains that Jiang can boast of are built on the bones of Chinese peasants and dissidents...
...American Airlines. He recently helped pave the way for Defago to appear before the Chicago Board of Rabbis and admit to Switzerland's numerous transgressions during and after World War II. So far, the new ambassador's shtick is playing a lot better than that of his predecessor, Carlo Jagmetti, who resigned in disgrace after saying that Switzerland was in a war it must "fight and win" and that its critics "cannot be trusted...
...woman charged with trying to save these antagonists from themselves has been in no hurry to visit the region. In 20 often fruitless trips, Albright's predecessor, Warren Christopher, became a model of what she saw as American diplomatic impotence. Unsure of herself in the byzantine world of Middle Eastern politics, she said she would travel there only if she could accomplish something substantial...