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...March '91 to 50% in July '97, producing a rank and file less likely to see a minority community as a hostile planet. The proportion of female officers, whom studies show are less prone to abusive behavior, has increased from 13.3% to 17.4% in the same time period. Citizen complaints are monitored by a new office of inspector general. "It's quite a different face on the Los Angeles police department," says Edith Perez, president of the city's new police commission, a civilian body that oversees the 9,400-member department. Last Friday the city swore...
...YORK: Never mind that they contribute over $2 billion a year to the U.S. economy. Non-citizen immigrants will have their food stamps taken away from them starting Monday ? forcing the 1 million who currently use them to go hungry, while many millions more lose their safety net. As last year's federal welfare reform starts to bite, TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera says that "immigrants are basically being told, 'It's okay for you to be here and work, but don't expect to be treated on an equitable level if you are going through hard times...
...Algeria (TIME Daily) ... Just for a moment, the Mir crew lost their main oxygen generator, and "couldn't find it anywhere," according to mission control (Reuters) ... Big Tobacco may save money in State settlements (TIME Daily) ... Two thousand people march in New York to protest police brutality ... (Reuters) ... Non-citizen immigrants lose their food stamps Monday (TIME Daily) ... The Kennedy name loses its luster in Massachusetts as Joe drops out of the governor's race (TIME Daily) ... The British Government invite Sinn Fein to take part in peace talks (TIME Daily) ... and an Encephalitis alert shuts down parts of Disney...
...increasingly interconnected world, it's tempting to interpret even nontax news stories according to their impact on your own life. How about the UPS strike? Yes, of course, a responsible citizen is concerned with analyzing the role played by part-time jobs in the American economy, but perhaps not as concerned as he is with whether or not those two polo shirts from the catalog company--one in puce, one in taupe--will arrive in time for the most important weekend of the summer...
...modern music, he devoted his life to composing almost exclusively for the player piano. He fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade against fascist Spain in 1937. His political views led the State Department to refuse to renew his passport in 1940. He moved to Mexico, where he became a citizen...