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...film shows, the U.S. had cracked Japan's codes and was able to decipher secret communiques. But the "bomb plot" message of Sept. 24 was not ignored by top military brass. In fact, Colonel Rufus C. Bratton treated the transcript, which asked for detailed reconnaissance of ships in Pearl Harbor, with great seriousness. For the record, Dan Ackroyd doesn't play Bratton in the movie but a Bratton-like figure named Thurman. This is presumably because, were he playing Bratton, he would never have told his superiors that he felt Pearl was in gravest peril. Bratton did think that...
When Rudy gets mad, he gets even. Just ask the people he's sent packing. Think of Hanover as former police commissioner William Bratton or as a squeegee man. Hanover doesn't want the kids to meet Judi at Gracie Mansion? Well, then, she's got a warped agenda and "doesn't care what happens to the children." Felder let it be known that Giuliani has to sleep in the den, with the bath down the hall, where he runs as many as eight times a night to vomit while his wife lives like a queen in the master bedroom...
...When Rudy gets mad, he gets even. Just ask the people he's sent packing. Think of Hanover as former police commissioner William Bratton or as a squeegee man. Hanover doesn't want the kids to meet Judi at Gracie Mansion? Well, then, she's got a warped agenda and "doesn't care what happens to the children." Felder let it be known that Giuliani has to sleep in the den, with the bath down the hall, where he runs as many as eight times a night to vomit while his wife lives like a queen in the master bedroom...
...blame for Diallo? The four white police officers, who shot a man holding a wallet; the system of accountability, put in place by former New York Police Commissioner William Bratton, puts intense pressure on officers to bring down crime at any price; wannabe-Senator Rudy Guiliani; and most importantly, the Supreme Court. While some feel there is not much of a policy difference between George W. Bush and Al Gore '69, there is a significant difference on this issue. With as many as three seats on the Supreme Court likely to come open in the next four years, the future...
...Bratton served as New York City police commissioner from...