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...public, the FBI is struggling to simultaneously introduce reform and hold its ground against potential terrorists. That determination is evident in the agency's new top priorities: protecting the United States from terrorist attack and against foreign intelligence operations and espionage. "The FBI can't act as traffic cop any longer," Mueller said, "we must develop the capability to anticipate and prevent future attacks." That capability depends on upgrades in many areas, including training staff to perform more incisive analyses, hiring agents with needed language skills, developing more sophisticated intelligence gathering methods and empowering field agents to act more independently...
...cops are on loan from Los Angeles, sent to tiny Nightmute, Alaska, to help an old pal, the police chief, solve the crime. They are, though, carrying some extra psychological baggage. Will is a great cop but has planted evidence to make his case against a child molester. Hap knows what happened and is going to talk to internal affairs, thus destroying a legendary career. So Will has a motive to kill him. And--this is the best part--his judgment is clouded by sleep deprivation. It is summertime in this land of the midnight sun, and the perpetual daylight...
What we have here is your basic good-cop-bad-cop story, except that those two characters are wrapped into one, with Pacino giving one of his terrific tormented performances in the role--impatient, arrogant and, in the long watches of the night, almost pathetically vulnerable. Williams is also good--an entrancing smoothy you can well imagine Will succumbing to. Hilary Swank represents rationality--a smart, inexperienced cop who deeply admires Will and can't quite believe the case she begins to develop against...
...tied down. But great powers do not like international institutions they cannot dominate, where it is one nation, one vote. This is the crux of the matter, and it riles the European soul that the giant in their midst prefers to be the Lone Ranger, not the community-minded cop. This game will not subside soon. But what is America's long-term interest? Is it wise to slap punitive tariffs on steel and almost double the subsidies for American farmers? The U.S. is also No. 1 in trade; it could not possibly flourish if barriers go up in retaliation...
Amidst all this hoopla, those who care about reducing incidents of assault on this campus and getting justice for those who are attacked should be rejoicing. Gone are the days when the collection of sweet but slightly dazed, tweed-clad academics played cop with the most difficult assault cases...