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Luckily for Hall, Coleman missed the antics. The kid and the cop are buddies, but Mike is also an auto thief who was sentenced to an indeterminate period of probation last year after he and a friend hot-wired an Olds Cutlass and led police on a mile-long chase. For 10 months Mike rode long hours in the cruiser with Coleman as part of an experiment to reform young delinquents. The theory behind the program is that cops can be strong role models for the youths, who get to view crime from the victims' perspective, a shock that courts...
When Dean H. Joachim Maitre delivered his commencement speech at Boston University's College of Communication in May, he chose as his theme the decline of morality in American culture. He cited several sexually explicit and violent scenes in the movie The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover and said, "The politically correct, properly liberal notion is -- liberal in the sense of having no standards -- is that we should never dig deeper to consider whether a given work is true...
...much. "Whoop! Scream! Whoop!" goes the traumatized Lumina. A passerby hearing the alarm rushes toward the beleaguered car, shaking his umbrella and addressing the car thief, "See here, my man! Unhand that vehicle!" Right...
...motor vehicles were stolen in the U.S., up 9.2% from 1988 and 42% over 1985. Would the losses be even greater if car alarms did not exist? No one knows. Police generally side with car alarms. Having one, after all, can't hurt, might help. An amateur thief might be scared off; a professional, however, knows how to disarm the system quickly...
...economy increasingly based on information and technology, ideas and creativity often embody most of a company's wealth. That is why innovations are being patented, trademarked and copyrighted in record numbers. It is also why today's clever thief doesn't rob banks, many of which are broke anyway; he makes unauthorized copies of Kevin Costner's latest film, sells bogus Cartier watches and steals the formula for Merck's newest pharmaceutical. That's where the money...