Word: cops
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HOSPITALIZED. ZSA ZSA GABOR, 85, Hungarian grande dame famous for her eight marriages, fewer good movie roles and a 1989 conviction for slapping a Beverly Hills, Calif., cop; in serious condition after suffering a head injury in a car crash; in Los Angeles...
...some of us tried, and are still trying. Eminem's generation seems to be saying in a variety of ways "The world sucks," but these people don't appear to be interested in trying to do anything about it. To suggest that no one can change anything is a cop-out. Any situation that has been changed had someone working on it. ELLEN BAILEY Indianapolis
...prison drama OZ, Christopher Meloni plays Chris Keller, a viperous predator. On NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, he's dogged cop Elliot Stabler. So he's an ideal choice to play one of the media monde's great Jekyll and Hydes: Mark Fuhrman. Fuhrman showed up in our living rooms during the O.J. Simpson trial as the cocky L.A. cop who had found the bloody glove. He testified to not having said "nigger" in the past decade; the defense found a taped interview through which he sprinkled the epithet like jimmies on a sundae, then used his perjury...
...correct. The second season involves a nuclear bomb threat in Los Angeles. "Once you posit that the show is set in the world of antiterrorism," says executive producer Robert Cochran, "you can't shy away from the things that people are afraid of. It'd be like a cop show with no murders." (Also, 24 has gutsily kept its real-time format, which Fox feared made it inaccessible to viewers who missed episodes...
...Among cops and other law enforcers, there are sharp divisions too. Some, like Joseph D. McNamara, a former San Jose police chief and now a Hoover Institution fellow, call for an end to the criminalization of marijuana. "Most of the police officers I hired during the 15 years I was police chief had tried it," says McNamara. Like many pot legalizers, he believes the system, which he says arrests more people for marijuana than for any other drug, is racist. "Ninety million Americans have tried marijuana. When you look at who's going to jail, it is overwhelmingly disproportionate...