Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's a typical call for the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). Nine out of ten days, in fact, will go by without any real "action" around the University, and recent statistics show that the incidence of property and violent crime on Harvard property has declined significantly. And there have been other changes, as well. New leadership and increased input into the decision-making system have eased the pentup tension of the policeman who last year, still recuperating from the David L. Gorski and Steven Hall administration, claimed morale was at an all-time...
Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police since July, has already left his mark on the department. He has emphasized the need for personnel training not only in supervisory skills, but also in new crime prevention and protection techniques. For the first time since its existence, the police department is providing its officers with the opportunity to develop their skills through attendance at one-week course programs in the Boston area. Drug education and enforcement, arson investigation, rape victimology and crime scene search are just a few of the areas in which officers have received instruction over the last...
King proved an aggressive campaigner who excited his friends and infuriated his enemies. Promising to stop state funding of abortion, re-institute capital punishment, and wage an all-out war against crime (three issues about which the governor can actually do very little), King called for a return to the good old days...
...poor carnival worker who seems to him to be his exact double, though in fact - and Nabokov's smile can be discerned here - there is no resemblance between the two men. Undeterred by reality and convinced that fate has handed him a chance at the perfect crime, Hermann changes clothes with the fellow, then shoots him, intending to collect on the in surance policy through his wife and live blissfully ever after...
...working-out of the crime has the mannered artificiality of an Agatha Christie thriller, which seems surprisingly like Nabokov's own mannered artificiality. The only blunder comes at the end. The police have surrounded the alpine chalet where Hermann is hiding. In the book, his mania produces the possibility of a brilliant escape. He yells to the crowd of onlookers, "Frenchmen! This is a rehearsal ... A famous film actor will presently come running out of this house. He is an archcriminal, but he must escape Hold those policemen, knock them down, sit on them - we pay them...