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...sweeps. May sweeps is two weeks long, and the two final episodes of "Survivor 2" will do very big business. But 16 weeks just weren't enough to get "Survivor 2" from Super Bowl Sunday to the last Thursday of sweeps. And Ed O'Neill's new cop show needed a lead-in. So they stuck in a clips show...
Finally, a large part of Cheney's success lies in his ability to do the dirty work and play bad cop in the administration. This is enormously vital to the Bush team's lofty and ambitious plans and goals. More than anybody else, Cheney coordinates the Bush administration, managing the personnel and making sure domestic policy, foreign policy and political plans come together. He is the prime minister to Bush's president. It is Cheney who goes to Capitol Hill to rally the troops, and, perhaps more importantly, keeps the troops in line. For example, on a recent visit...
...cop to be good? In countries that have recently shed authoritarian rule, the issue is especially pressing. "It is a huge transition for the police to go from protecting the interests of the state to protecting its citizens," says Jim Curran, dean of special programs at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He and his colleagues at the school have developed a course meant to reverse the effects of years of bad police practices. Since 1994, more than 3,000 cops in 50 troubled countries have taken "Human Dignity and Policing," funded by the Department of Justice...
...burly former New York City street cop, Curran knew he wouldn't reach his students just by preaching to them. "You can't lecture someone into change," he says. So he sought to make the lessons deeply personal. Part group therapy, part confessional, the course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their...
...this is watchable enough, because Lonergan writes sharp dialogue and has more respect for plot than many playwrights these days. But none of it sticks to the ribs. Some blame goes to the actors (as Dawn, the female cop, Heather Burns has no street cred at all) and to Mark Brokaw's direction, which is too broad. But the fault lies mostly with Lonergan, who betrays his much vaunted realism with contrivance and cheap laughs at every turn. Example: Jeff, the cutely self-aware nincompoop, doesn't want to betray his boss's confidence, so he tells the whole story...