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...what some rank-and-file cops refer to as "Bratton taking the cuffs off us" has increased force, abuse and discourtesy complaints to the Civilian Complaint Review Board 30%. Many of the complaints have never been investigated by the CCRB and are impossible to evaluate. Still, some New Yorkers fear the N.Y.P.D.'s new swagger. "A lot of people aren't comfortable with this style," says Kelly. "It goes to the question of what kind of policing we want in America. You can probably shut down just about all crime, if you're willing to burn down the village...
DIED. LITA GREY CHAPLIN, 88, actress; in Woodland Hills, California. At 12, she was Charlie Chaplin's new star in The Kid (1921). At 16, she was Chaplin's new wife. At 18, her lurid divorce complaint launched one of the earliest celebrity court cases...
...public in U.S. Healthcare or the quality of U.S. Healthcare coverage." A further proviso stipulated that "physicians shall keep the Proprietary Information and this Agreement strictly confidential." Himmelstein says he found the whole restriction "so obnoxious I crossed it out" before signing. The emended contract was accepted without complaint...
...although Muratovic called on NATO forces to make Sarajevo safe for all citizens, a NATO spokesman said that wasn't their job. "We are not a police force," said General Andrew Cumming, who added that such incidents must be sorted out by local police and civilian authorities. The complaint comes as many Serbs flee Ilidza, fearful that they will be mistreated after the central government takes control of a united Sarajevo. For related news, visit TIME World Wide's special page devoted to the U.S. mission in Bosnia with extended daily news, special audio reports from TIME correspondents abroad...
...SABBATH'S THEATER by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) explores the beginnings of geezerhood (Roth's resolutely obnoxious hero, Mickey Sabbath, is a randy 64) with some of the same comic sexual energy that set readers goggling in Portnoy's Complaint. Sabbath is an ex-puppeteer whose present occupation is perfecting his scabrous personality. As he searches his disorderly past for meaning, largely without success, he is an equal-opportunity boor, richly offensive to women, men, Jews and Gentiles. Yet the result is a brilliantly written character, rampaging through a novel about facing death in a lonely...