Word: copping
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...China's President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have styled themselves as political moderates. Although greater intervention in Hong Kong politics would damage that reputation, they have room to play good cop, holding out the promise of gradual reforms if the territory drops demands for direct elections. If Chen is re-elected in Taiwan, however, Beijing might come down even harder on Hong Kong. "Because the Taiwan situation makes China's leaders nervous," says Joseph Cheng, a professor of political science at Hong Kong's City University, "there will be very little room for tolerance or magnanimity toward Hong...
...their new film, a campy remake of the campy '70s cop show Starsky & Hutch, Stiller and Wilson play their set roles broadly. They sat down with TIME for a chat about the film, the pressures of being a comedy duo and hitting on women. The suitable-for-a-family-magazine parts appear below...
...must also be said that Starsky & Hutch has moments of hilarity a little greater than you might expect of a movie that is just out for a lazy good time. There is, for example, Starsky's visit to his mother's grave. She was a cop too, and he solemnly leaves a doughnut on her headstone as a tribute to a police legend now on her final, eternal stakeout. There's a nice locker-room bit where, after a shower, the men grab hand towels instead of bath towels to cover their butts. And you don't want to know...
...Penn thrashes and grimaces, Tim Robbins acts numb, and Marcia Gay Harden wobbles her voice so much that you wonder if she’s standing on the San Andreas Fault. On the other hand, Kevin Bacon does some of the best work of his career as a reasonable cop beset by marriage problems. He strikes a note of casual verisimilitude and, in an Eastwood film, that’s about the only note that’ll work...
...though being a Baghdad cop has ever been easy. When Saddam was in charge, cops often found themselves dangerously exposed. Because power depended on connections with the ruling family, Dhahir and his colleagues unwittingly walked into traps. In May 1997, acting on a court order, Dhahir arrested a man who turned out to be the son of a prominent member of Saddam's ruling Baath Party. Dhahir was arrested in the man's place. He spent 17 days in jail, was demoted and got transferred 300 miles south to the city of Basra. (His arrest, he says, was ordered...