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Under Riley's predecessor, Paul E. Johnson, the department was faced with bitter internal bickering, including a drawn-out battle with HUPD officers over their contract and constant in-fighting among the department's brass...
These reforms are part of Riley's overall plan to revamp the image of the HUPD, which under his predecessor, Paul E. Johnson was plagued with accusations that officers were racist and insensitive to student concerns...
...happened, the Israelis were actually the first to get it from the Palestinian masses, who are incensed by Netanyahu's blatant foot-dragging in the peace process. His predecessor, Labor's Shimon Peres, was also regarded as excessively tough. But, notes Ali Jirbawi, "at least with Peres there was a sense that we were moving. Slowly, yes, but the dream of an independent Palestine was still alive. What is dangerous about Netanyahu is that he shattered this dream...
...fitting that the heroine of the author's fine, quietly melancholy second book, Naked Sleeper (HarperCollins; 235 pages; $23), should share her predecessor's vocation, for she too seems compelled to intensify her sense of disconnect. Though Nona never leaves her native Manhattan, she teaches English to lonely foreigners who, just like her, are lost souls in a land of plenty. Abandoned as a child by her father, Nona at middle age finds herself in what is for her an uncomfortable place: a safe, happy marriage to a man who probably won't leave. Like a girl in a beautiful...
EDWARD PEASE Republican--Indiana 7th Pease won by 28 points in this G.O.P.-heavy district, thanks to the support of his retiring 15-term predecessor...