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Ryan rolled up in car 293 at 6:15, and he looked to be living a version of the TV show "COPS." He was out on patrol, down and dirty, wearing a yellow raincoat and sipping from a large cup of coffee--just like a real cop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

...live right next to The Bow and Arrow. Every night at closing, Harvard students stream out, swearing, shouting, and breaking bottles. Not once have I seen a cop give a single one of these River-trekkers a hard time...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Reflections On Race and Class | 11/9/1993 | See Source »

...Alright," the cop said, and told the kids to get lost. I was glad that they hadn't been arrested, or harassed even more. It didn't even occur to me that they weren't allowed to get a cup of coffee...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Reflections On Race and Class | 11/9/1993 | See Source »

...that the recent assassination of Justice Minister Guy Malary was handled by the army but carried out by Francois's men -- without his prior knowledge. Some Haitians see in this an army attempt to reduce Francois's power. A military officer who watches Francois closely says Haiti's top cop has woven his own power structure and manages it with considerable skill. Whether in league with Cedras or not, Francois plainly intends to stay at the helm. "The military controls Haiti," he asserted recently, "and it always will." As yet, there is little reason to believe that will change anytime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: With Friends Like These | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

Aside from Hollywood producer Don Simpson (Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun), who says that "Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh are the only two voices of truth in the media," the same individuals who like and admire Limbaugh are probably very seldom the same individuals who like and admire Stern. But just who are they? And why is each audience so fetched by its man? "All those 20 million people are not some kind of Nazis," Mary Matalin says of her fellow dittoheads. "What's really homogeneous about them is not their party affiliation but their mistrust of those they elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big Mouths | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

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