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...brave words mask major weaknesses in the pro-democracy movement. International oil customers, hesitant to offend an influential supplier or harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...
...expects it. I think politicians will face up to it. But we simply have to realize we are in an era when our ability to moderate the severity of crimes is substantially reduced from what it once was. We are much more reliant on public policy, which is a crude and not very effective instrument. And we are much less dependent on informal social controls, which, when they work, are the most powerful controls...
...outraged by the popularity of the crude and cruel techniques of carjacking, which he insists is due to a national surplus of amateur burglars. "In the 45 seconds it would take me to push you out of your car, I could simply take it off a dark street," he explains. "If it's complicated, maybe I'll need 60 seconds...
Heidi: I just have a fixed price, and no one is hustled, and no one is, like, crude and, or, you know, where someone is spending all this money, and Heidi's going to find some drugged-out freak coming in with her fingernails all dirty, and I can't afford stuff like that 'cause of all the people I deal with...
...worse, TV cops who sing or TV cops who swear? America will get to decide that question this fall when producer Steven Bochco, who created Cop Rock (as well as Hill Street Blues), premieres his NYPD Blue on ABC. Bochco negotiated an unusual agreement with ABC over the crude vernacular he could use on the show. According to that confidential document, among the 30 or so prime-time words acceptable to ABC are such bizarre semi-obscenities as mother jumper and humphead, as well as a vulgar term for feces and a vulgar term for female genitalia...