Word: copping
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...agents and D.C. detectives are back on the Levy case after being diverted by post-Sept. 11 duties. But every cop knows and fears that time is the enemy of a happy ending. Condit says he hopes the media will stay focused on her case, not on him: "There still is a missing person, and someone had something to do with this. Everyone seems to have forgotten this." Not the Levys...
Also on the agenda for next year: a proposal, backed by some influential lawmakers, to split the INS into two agencies--a good cop that would tend to service functions like processing citizenship papers and a bad cop that would concentrate on border inspections, deportation and other functions. One reason for the division, supporters say, is that the INS has in recent years become too focused on serving tourists and immigrants. After this year's tragedy, they say, the INS should pay more attention to serving a different population: the millions of ordinary Americans who rely on the nation...
...LANTANA A woman disappears after her car breaks down. A troubled cop (Anthony LaPaglia) investigates. He's soon caught up in a mystery that is less a twisting line than a series of surprisingly interlinked, steadily shrinking circles. Director Ray Lawrence and a great cast always remember that the enigmas of the human heart provide our most entrancing puzzles...
Walker didn't answer. In a bit of CIA showmanship, Spann and his partner, known only as Dave, held a conversation within obvious hearing distance of Walker. "I explained to him what the deal is," Spann told Dave. Dave played the bad cop: "He needs to decide if he wants to live or die. If he wants to die, he's just going to die here. He can die here if he wants. He can f_____g die here. Or he's going to be f_____g spending the rest of his f_____g short life in prison...
...much of a cop-out as it may seem to blame the media, increasingly overt messages from popular culture have certainly made an impression on young people’s view of sex today. During my high school years, YM and Seventeen magazines were a vital source of information, and they often included special pullout sections revealing the essentials every girl had to know before, during and after the deed. Although these magazines were always careful to mention that virginity was an acceptable option, the constant emphasis on sex stood staunchly in contradiction to such claims. Virgins, after all, were...