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Paul E. Johnson, who is chief of the Harvard University Police, said yesterday that the police had singled out a likely culprit, and were nearly prepared to apprehend...
...reply that cracking down on gangs is but the latest in a long list of official excuses for the rough-and-ready justice that has become routine in minority neighborhoods. In 1982 the L.A.P.D. was forced to ban the controversial bar-arm choke hold they had been using to apprehend suspects after several people died while in custody. Contends Don Jackson, a former police sergeant in the suburb of Hawthorne who has become a crusader against racially motivated police brutality: "They don't have white kids sit on the curb when they talk to them. They don't have white...
Even when convictions are obtained, misused funds can be difficult to recover. Most of the S&L con men have lost the money, says Wortham. "It's easy come, easy go." That may be why regulators are moving quickly to apprehend another class of villains: the accountants who, out of negligence or complicity, helped cause the S&L disaster. The Government has filed ten lawsuits against the country's biggest accounting firms, totaling $2 billion, and that figure is expected to rise dramatically. Gripes Joseph Mauriello, a partner with the second largest accounting giant, KPMG Peat Marwick: "They are going...
...friend, "You know, Jabal, this might be a very good time for you to take those swimming lessons you have been talking about for so long." Adam and his wife, Moses and his tablets, Joseph and his coat -- all are here with their moral testaments, made even easier to apprehend with Oscar de Mejo's eloquent landscapes of Eden and afterward...
...much remembering. In Funes, the Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges tells the story of a man who suddenly gains the ability to remember every iota of information he has ever apprehended. Every vein of every leaf of every tree, every formation of every cloud in every sky at every instant of his life he sees. An avalanche of knowing renders him inaccessible, mystical and finally defeated. Funes dies young. No mind can apprehend God's work, or man's, in all its detail and survive. Forgetting, for men as for nations, is a biological necessity, like sleep, a respite from consciousness...