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...Emmy Award--winning actor best known as the savvy, tough White House chief of staff turned vice-presidential candidate Leo McGarry on TV's The West Wing; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. The son of blue-collar parents, he got his break as Harrison Ford's cop sidekick in the 1990 film Presumed Innocent. That led to his big TV roles as L.A. Law's streetwise lawyer Tommy Mullaney and West Wing's top aide, who last season left his post after suffering a heart attack...
...Crash The Los Angeles car culture comes to a series of screeching interrelated halts as various forms of vehicular unpleasantness occur at every socio-economic level of the city. Show folks, politicians, criminals, and, yes, the cops who have to untangle the messes the make, work out their fates. To say that Paul Haggis's film is multi-layered understates the case. But there is great clarity in his direction, shrewd observation in the screenplay (which he wrote with Robert Moresco and rafts of terrific acting-most notably by Matt Dillon as a racist cop who becomes the reluctant hero...
...sober. Says Commander Chris Allison of London's Metropolitan Police: "There's a culture among certain young people that you haven't had a good night out unless you become paralytically drunk, puked up in a bucket, urinated on someone's front lawn and, best of all, smacked a cop...
...education brackets.It would be ridiculous to join a military you don’t agree with because you think it needs more rich people. The poor are overrepresented among prison inmates, but you don’t hear anybody suggesting that every liberal grab a gun and off a cop. On the other hand, I understand the argument that liberals should temper their criticism of the military because of the difficult circumstances and decisions that lead so many soldiers to military service. Liberals should be sensitive to the difficulties faced by many soldiers. But the question of militarism...
...other a Muslim. Therefore, one arrest and 50 lashes take place that night. After whipping the sinful Muslim to a bloody pulp, in what appears to be an amateur re-enactment of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion,” the Harvard cop asks: ‘How do you like them apples?’ This incident illustrates how tough Harvard cops can be, especially considering that the cop decided to enforce a strict medieval interpretation of Sharia law in Cambridge, for no apparent reason whatsoever, and that neither of the students was drinking.Azhar...