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After stumbling out of a Dave & Busters in Ohio Sunday night, a woman tried to convince a cop she was sober enough to drive her car by having sex with him. He turned down her offer and she was arrested when she tried driving again in just...
...Minors who engage in prostitution can be taken into police custody. (They're difficult to nab, though, with hoods and catch guys constantly looking out on their behalf. "From time to time we try to stamp out the shops, but they're like cockroaches," says Shioya, the undercover cop. "Kill one, there are 50 more.") Instead of being arrested, minors are brought to one of eight police-run youth centers in Tokyo, whose staff evaluate them and decide on a course of action. The center in Shinjuku detained about 500 youths last year for questioning. Among boys, the range...
...suicide bombers, standing some 120 feet apart, had ignited their deadly baggage, sending nails and screws into the crowd. "The police came and the rescues forces came in a few minutes," the off-duty cop told TIME. But 20 minutes after the initial blasts, as police and ambulance attended to the dead and injured, a third blast blew up a car parked 300 feet north of Ben Yehuda. That explosion, which some witnesses believe was meant as a kind of coup de grace, injured only one person. But the first two had a huge toll, at least eight dead...
...Members of Bush's own party realize a wartime president can't play legislative cop all the time, but they are now pleading for action. "I understand what he's doing staying above the fray," says Ohio Congressman Rob Portman, a key White House ally on the Hill, "but the president is going to have to engage a little more if he doesn't want us to be paralyzed." Some high ranking Republicans are less modulated than Portman, complaining that the White House is selling out fellow Republicans to protect the president's political interests. As Bush blames Congress...
...role that will set tongues unraveling like red carpets comes in Corey Yuen's Virtual Twilight, a sort of Charlie's Angels-goes-to-China co-funded by Columbia Asia. Mok plays a sophisticated plainclothes cop chasing two killers, dishes Shu Qi and Zhao Wei. It's the up-and-comer vs. the two It-girls of current Chinese cinema. Says mainland actress Zhao: "Karen Mok's cosmopolitan, smart, sexy?and always...