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Some people speculate that Gates wanted a civic Gotterdammerung -- a traumatic breakdown that would somehow justify his crude law-and-order faith. The Rev. Cecil Murray, an influential black pastor, calls Gates "a proud man, almost a vain man." Murray theorizes, "What better vindication upon those who find him anathema than to let them write for him ((Gates)) a blank check to destroy?" There is, however, no evidence to support any conspiracy theory, and Gates instead blames critics of the L.A.P.D.'S tough tactics for the chaotic police response in the early phases of the rioting. "Police officers...
...Yanks are, in their way, a family. They have a deserted chateau for a home. They have a designated Father (Frank Whaley), a sometime seminarian whose priestly aspirations have gone awry; a designated Mother (Gary Sinise), a fussbudget teetering on the brink of mental breakdown; and a favored son, Will Knott (Ethan Hawke), sergeant in command as well as the film's narrator and controlling sensibility...
...teams played evenly for the next two quarters--each scoring five more goals--but Harvard could not recover from the breakdown in the second period...
These, of course, are precisely the kinds of traditional values to which the politicians appeal -- they read the same polls -- even as individual behavior veers steadily away from the traditional. Family breakdown, sexual revolution, the drug epidemic are facts. What the polls show is that people are not particularly happy with these facts. They may not be able to help themselves but wish they could...
...families of the victims of that crash. "A couple of my old black ops buddies in the Pentagon believe the Pan Am bombers were gunning for McKee's hostage-rescue team," he says. "But they were told to shift the focus of their investigation because it revealed an embarrassing breakdown in security." The FBI says it investigated the theory that McKee's team was targeted and found no evidence to support...