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...Police pride themselves on resolving issues, and 99% of the time it occurs without arrests happening," says Nolan. "You are not going to win any accolades bringing in anyone for a street disturbance. It's a waste of time because in order to bring this situation to a conclusion, you've got hours of paperwork ahead...
...really didn’t want to have to take such a drastic action because I knew it was going to bring a certain amount of attention, unwanted attention, on me," Crowley said in a recent television interview. "Nonetheless, that’s how far professor Gates pushed it and provoked and just wouldn’t stop,” Crowley said...
...would involve making sweeping cuts in education and health services as well as taking billions from county governments. Democratic state assemblyman Tom Ammiano has introduced legislation that would let California regulate and tax the sale of marijuana. The state's proposed $50-per-oz. pot tax would bring in about $1.3 billion a year in additional revenue. Ammiano's bill was shelved this session, but he expects to introduce a revised bill early next year. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Great American Pot Smoke...
...past decade - are increasingly wary that prices have risen too far, and that the slightest bit of negative economic news could knock markets for a loop. These fears are compounded by the possibility that Asia's central bankers will begin taking steps to shut off the money spigots and bring the party to an end. On July 29, rumors that Beijing was on the verge of tightening credit sent Shanghai stocks plunging 5%, their biggest decline in eight months...
...subversive in more discreet ways. Instead of joining street protests, they try to short the electrical grids by turning on all household appliances en masse; they boycott products advertised on state TV; and they increasingly turn to Twitter, blogs, Facebook, e-mail-distribution lists and underground newspapers to bring attention to the regime's brutal tactics. (Read "Which State Security Branch Rules Tehran's Streets...