Word: copping
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...brother when Ron was a teenager fascinated me. Within families, each individual relationship has its own fingerprint and, like a fingerprint, is unique. I got to see in this letter how my father spoke to his son, a male-to-male moment. He used words like uptight and cop out, which he never used with me. It's as if he were looking ahead, past the need to be a disciplinarian, to a future when he and Ron could have the camaraderie of two guys hanging...
...investigation issued its first criminal charge last week and began to shift to a second set of mutual fund trades--those by Millennium Partners, a $4 billion hedge fund run by storied Wall Street investor Israel Englander. And Spitzer wasn't the only cop on the Wall Street beat. The NASD, a securities-industry regulator, had settled a separate case with Morgan Stanley, which it charged with offering brokers improper incentives to push in-house funds that might not be best for its clients...
...part of his education, but Kaneshiro soon learned that being an outsider offers certain advantages. Pulled over for speeding in Taipei while still a teenager, he produced his Japanese-school ID card instead of a driver's license (he was too young to drive) and babbled at the cop in Japanese. Taking him for a befuddled foreigner, "the cop just got frustrated and waved me off," Kaneshiro says...
...Tenderhearted Superman. When the time came to parlay his local celebrity into a film career (routine for Taiwan's idol factory), he perversely shunned roles in safe, saccharine vehicles, insisting instead on quirkier character parts. He won acclaim in his second movie for his role as a lovelorn cop in Wong Kar-wai's 1994 cult hit, Chungking Express...
...you’re from Hahvard,” says the cop. “Are you rich, or are you smart...