Word: copping
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...revision of the manual, three new techniques were added: the good-cop, bad-cop routine; the "false flag" (allowing interrogators to claim that they are not Americans, if necessary), and, in carefully defined circumstances, separating detainees from one another. Human-rights advocates have argued that isolating captives is a form of cruelty...
...will finally join the effort. Juárez's mayor, who is shadowed by six assault-rifle-toting bodyguards, has ousted half his old police force through drug tests, polygraphs and other "confidence exams." Under his pact with Calderón, Reyes now has to recruit more than 2,000 new cops, who, he says, will be among Mexico's best paid and educated. (Aside from a starting annual salary of $9,000 - twice the usual pay for a local cop in Mexico - they'll receive subsidized housing and other perks...
That's looking now to be a far likelier course of action than it seemed just a few weeks ago, meaning that our banking system may survive more or less intact. This seems like a terrible cop-out, until you consider that this financial crisis wasn't initiated by the banks - that is, FDIC-insured depository institutions. It was a crisis that began among and devastated the shadow banks. A few banking companies - Citigroup, UBS, JPMorgan Chase - did become deeply entwined in the shadow-banking system through their investment-banking arms. But banks, narrowly defined, weren't the big problem...
...economies will give way to a more balanced system of governance, under which developing countries such as Brazil, China and Russia will have a greater say. The IMF's focus is supposed to shift, too: the G-20 wants it to play a more active role as global economic cop, monitoring policy among the major advanced economies as well as the poorer ones, and blowing a whistle when it sees dangerous behavior. In theory, the IMF should reflect both the changing global economic order and the crisis-induced shift towards greater financial regulation...
...Indeed, the attention paid to Roxana Saberi has elevated her value that much more. Ahmadinejad may yet play the good cop and spring Saberi, and his intervention may be a real sign that he is ready to talk to Obama, but if the arrest of one Miss North Dakota can sidetrack international diplomacy, then dealing with Tehran is not going to be cheap or easy...