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Leung says that many of her friends applied to law schools as a last resort in the absence of any good employment opportunities...
Director David McMahon did a magnificent job of organizing what could have been utter chaos. At times, characters were stranded on stage without any lines. McMahon covered up any potential awkwardness by providing alcoholic relief in the office--a frequent resort for characters who might have otherwise been stagnant...
...professor of criminal law at the University of Wisconsin. "The neighborhood support gives police a greater sense of confidence and authority, which reduces their need for using force. If police officers feel they don't have the authority, the power, to handle a situation, they're more likely to resort to brute force." Referring to the L.A.P.D.'s beating of Rodney King, Goldstein says, "It's incomprehensible that a police officer imbued with community policing would engage in that type of behavior...
...sickening glare from that grisly scene has thrown light upon police brutality all across the country. Was the beating an aberration, as Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates insists? Or did it affirm yet again that many cops resort to violence, and even deadly force, when no threat to their safety can justify it? Is racism so pervasive among police that the fight against crime all too often becomes a war on blacks? Has the criminal-justice system, which permits too many criminals to go free after serving only token sentences or none at all, become so ineffectual that officers...
Since Iraq's T-72 tanks rolled into Kuwait seven months ago, special correspondent Michael Kramer has flown to Saudi Arabia on five separate occasions to report on the war. During each trip, he made sure to go to the mountainous resort of Taif to visit with Kuwait's ruling family and the government in exile. In his story this week, Kramer shares his unique perspective on the Kuwaitis and tells what he found when he entered the ransacked shell of Kuwait City with six Kuwaiti ministers...