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...Timoney's answer to the emboldened attacks on his colleagues is to give them matching firepower. Although it had been in the works prior to officer Somohano's death, the day after the fatal shooting Timoney signed a new police directive authorizing Miami patrol officers to carry AR 15s, a military-grade assault weapon. "Cops understandably feel they are outgunned," Timoney says. "Nine, ten months ago we looked at what can we do to give the officers a fair chance...
...cities and states have announced pay raises of as much as 40% to dissuade cops from joining the narcos. In San Pedro, Margáin has created trusts to finance better housing and benefits for police, and he'll spend $500,000 this year to give them heavier weapons, like AR-15 automatic rifles. "Mexico has no choice," he says, "but to start treating police with more human dignity...
...Ar the end of the day-or Evening-what we have here is a movie that is, most fundamentally, an anti-movie. That is to say, it is all wistful regrets about nothing very much, statically staged, lacking in dramatic incident, gripping confrontations, a compelling dramatic arc. There's simply no point in making-or seeing-movies in which pretty people stand about mooning over what might have been. For better or worse, they have to be about people who challenge their fates, instead of limply succumbing to them...
...grow our way out of the coming crisis in entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare or do you think we will have to make true sacrifices for the solvency of our entire nation? Between tax increases and benefit reductions, where do you fall? -Casey Willits from Fayetteville, AR...
...Charlize is re-creating the Marilyn Monroe image in those Christian Dior ads, and Chanel's Nicole Kidman ad is like a mini Moulin Rouge. They're playing characters, which is why these examples work," says Raul Martinez, CEO and creative director of AR Media. "As long as the concept is on brand, you're O.K. And we've seen what happens when it doesn't work...