Word: copping
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...With many of China's 60 million registered investors sharing Chen's sense of outrage, the pressure on the country's new stock cop is palpable. Shang Fulin, a little-known technocrat, landed in the hot seat last week when he was named chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). His challenge: to impose order on a stock market that a leading Chinese economist once described as worse than a casino (because "at least casinos have rules"). Shang arrives at a precarious juncture. Even as China's GDP has grown 8% annually, its market has sunk more than...
...total box-office take for Psychedelic Cop, Hong Kong's biggest flop...
...against Wall Street are like stopping someone speeding on a highway," he says. "The other cars slow down for a while, and then, after a certain number of miles, they speed up again. The question is, How many miles before they start speeding again?" Our hero, the "Caped Highway Cop," awaits...
...Order to the orange DANGER!-DANGER!-DANGER! graphics of Connie Chung Tonight and the rest of its cable-news cohort. (Curiously, from the news media's perspective, little girls miraculously stopped being abducted as soon as the Washington sniper drew his first bead.) Some dozen-and-a-half cop shows dominated prime-time series TV, not counting the numerous cable crime series and a steady stream of increasingly popular reality shows like Forensic Files. The result was a feedback loop of fear in a society that was not experiencing any crime wave except this virtual one: crime news begat crime...
...much of a stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart. FX's cop drama The Shield introduced Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), a crooked, brutal--and extremely effective--L.A. cop, and left it up to us to decide whether his results justified his means. HBO's The Wire used the story of a single Baltimore drug investigation as a parable for the crisis...