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That is the high-sounding euphemism that New York's Finest use for their ingrained habit of refusing to "rat" about misconduct by fellow officers. They ought to call it just obstruction of justice, so ruthlessly enforced by ostracism and even bodily harm that only a few officers have the guts and integrity to break ranks when misconduct occurs. But the assault on Louima was so savage that Volpe's fellow cops could not tolerate it. Detective Eric Turetzky testified that he saw Volpe lead Louima, in handcuffs and with his pants around his ankles, away from the bathroom area...
...there is a deeper reason that the Louima case doesn't necessarily portend a slowdown in attempts to cover up police brutality. Call it the white wall of silence--the implicit bargain that Giuliani, like the mayors of many cities, has made with his mostly white core political supporters. They reckon that voters will tolerate heavy-handed police tactics as long as they don't have to see them; that most nonwhites, especially young males, are considered suspect, and that wholesale violations of their civil liberties are an acceptable price to pay for a drop in the crime rate. That...
...accidental--all these add up to frightening confirmation that the U.S. is bent on "containing" China from achieving its rightful place in the world. The Cox report not only buttresses the public tilt toward tension and mutual distrust but also strengthens Beijing's own hard-liners as they call on China's leaders to get tough...
...most elegant displays of the power of the Internet to be harnessed for what experts call distributed computing. "The largest supercomputer you can buy has 9,000 Pentium processors in it," says SETI@home director David Anderson. If everyone who has downloaded his program uses it, he points out, "we have what's equivalent to a box with 400,000 Pentiums...
...office, we call after-hours stock trading "the badlands." That's because anything goes--information is unevenly disseminated, and scalpers take advantage of any angle they can muster. If you are quick, you prosper; if you are slow, you die. Casualties are high. Now both NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange want you to venture into those badlands. Both exchanges made it clear last week that the 4 p.m. closing bell will signify nothing come fall. The markets will stay open till...