Word: cops
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...dozen romance novels, Evanovich switched to a crime series. "I decided that if I was going to stay with something for a long time, it would have to go back to New Jersey," she says. Not wanting to make her heroine, Stephanie Plum, a private eye or a cop, Evanovich made her a bounty hunter who tracks down suspects who jump bail. "It had such cachet, the Wild West thing," she says. "It was something with a lot of personal freedom to it. Then I had to find out what bounty hunters do." She also had to learn to shoot...
...seemed determined to continue nominating the corpse of Dennis Franz for years after his death - for not sharing the wealth this year. Two new shows were nominated for best drama ("24" and "Six Feet Under"), and Michael Chiklis was nominated for his first year on FX's morally ambiguous cop drama (which should have gotten "Law & Order's" drama spot, but who are we kidding?). HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - a screamingly funny comedy of neuroses watched by approximately 15 people outside New York and LA, all of whom will write me angry e-mail for that remark - surprised everyone...
This someone looks a lot like Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt, which is why he makes such an irresistible target and why even the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial page has suggested that he lacks credibility as the nation's top securities cop. Financial scandals are mounting so rapidly on his watch that Pitt's boldest acts--his recent proposal to create an independent oversight board for the accounting industry, the fraud charges he has brought against WorldCom--seem to come a few beats late. "He is not doing the job, in my opinion," Senate majority leader...
...draw similarities between the actor and John Anderton, his complex, haunted character in Minority Report, is irresistible. In Spielberg's sci-fi mystery, Cruise stars as a seemingly stalwart cop in 2054 who heads an elite squad known as Precrime. Using a trio of psychic mutants called precogs, he can detect a murder before it happens, strap on a jet pack, then arrest the would-be perpetrator. But Anderton leads a double life, scoring a drug called neuroin in dark alleys, seeking oblivion after the unraveling of his family. Based on a 1956 short story by Philip K. Dick...
...swiftly into the shadows. Duterte says he "patrols" twice a week, usually late at night, stopping at precinct houses to see who's in the holding cells and why, and to make sure his police are doing their job. He has made a policy of doling out groceries to cops as a way of curbing their temptation to elicit bribes, but that doesn't mean he's always in a benevolent mood. When he finds a cop drunk on duty, Duterte admits, he personally doles out a thrashing...