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...career union buster, was cheered in Tasmania by members of one of the nation's toughest unions, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. "Rats in the ranks," Labor candidate for Bowman and Australian Services Union organizer Donna Webster fumed about the cfmeu. "That was an absolute cop-out." But for the P.M., it was an effective political strike: after hinting in the first week of the campaign he would move on the contentious issue of logging in the island state's old-growth forests, the Prime Minister waited until Labor had been attacked by timber workers over its plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter of Trust | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...UNDERCOVER COP WORMS HIS WAY into a powerful Mob. A mobster joins the police force and rises quickly through the ranks. Each man knows there's an infiltrator in the other group, but neither knows who the rogue agent is. One thing they do know: if their identities are revealed, one of them will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in Double-Cross Fire | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...three years, undercover cop Yan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) has worked for Mob lord Sam (Eric Tsang). Sam's plant in the Hong Kong Triad Police Bureau is Ming (Andy Lau), whose commander, Wong (Anthony Wong), has been after Sam for most of his career. When the cops try to bust one of Sam's drug deals, both sides realize they are internally compromised. Yan and Ming must walk a fine line, getting information to their true bosses while hiding their own identities from their duped colleagues. Sometimes the only way to achieve that is by killing an ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in Double-Cross Fire | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...argument will come back to that: Have you changed your mind about the troops? What about Spain?" Labor has long argued that having troops in Iraq has made Australia more of a target and damaged regional goodwill and cooperation against terrorism. Howard has painted Labor's plan as a cop-out in a necessary war, though his deputy, National Party leader John Anderson, said Australia "could be" more of a target because it was in Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftershocks Down Under | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...next year's remake of 1974's football-in-prison film The Longest Yard, his coach is Hollywood's most beloved jock, BURT REYNOLDS. "What I told Adam is, 'Get a walk,'" says Reynolds, who played the QB inmate in the original. "A quarterback walk is like a cop walk, where you stride up there, and before you even tell the guy to roll the window down, he knows he's in deep trouble." With a cast including comic CHRIS ROCK and former NFL players Michael Irvin and Brian Bosworth, rookie Sandler is apt to take some hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Look: Quite a Step Up from The Waterboy | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

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