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The old subway turnstiles opened when you slid a token into a very narrow slot on top. Tens of thousands of dirty New York hands pushed them in all day. You could, apparently, put your lips over that slot and, with a hard inhalation, suck a token back up out...
I was then a second-year resident in general surgery on trauma call. The radio said they were coming from Roxbury with a gunshot wound to the groin. Four Boston policemen "accompanied" my patient through the electric doors. He had been resisting arrest, even tried to run down a cop...
And where were the cops? Quite a few were busy taking bribes. It was no secret that crooked officers shared their illegal profits with an equally corrupt Democratic political club, Tammany Hall. But on May 6, 1895, Republican mayor William Strong appointed to the city's four-man board of...
But while teenagers in menacing face-paint take shifts as lookouts around the property, ready to battle the cops with tribal dance and felt costumes, the tree-dwellers are on their cell phones (charged by a solar-paneled, bio-diesel fueled truck parked outside) battling on several fronts. Since most...
Putting tens of thousands of troops and police on the streets of Baghdad also makes a statement. But the new uniforms being issued to prevent insurgents from disguising themselves as cops and soldiers will help only until those uniforms are given away by sympathizers or sold on the black market...