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...used to be focused on hardened criminals. Gang members and cocaine dealers suffered in the first years of Giuliani's tenure as Mayor. However, as the jails filled and crime went down, Giuliani was forced to crack down on less obvious criminals. Pornography stores were evicted and a taxi driver strike was broken. These actions, while ethically suspect, were deemed justifiable--after all, who's going to stand up for taxi drivers and the pornography industry other than Woody Harrelson...
...nationwide fighting force of some 17,000. The guerrillas, who are holding some 500 members of the government's security forces prisoner in their zone of control, are believed to have their own helicopters, and Colombians who are stopped at their roadblocks on national highways have reported having their driver's licenses entered into a computer containing a database of the country's bank accounts, to determine whether they'd be worth kidnapping - still a lucrative sideline for the millionaire Maoists...
Jose A. Andrade, known universally as Joe, is the only full-time driver for the evening shuttle van. That means he sees half of the students who call the van every night (a series of part-time drivers share another...
...story just gets stranger. Ten days earlier, at an Irvine office park, Ford's business partner, a gregarious 58-year-old named James Patrick Riley, had been shot in the face by a gunman wearing a ski mask. Riley survived. When police tracked the getaway car, its driver turned out to be an acquaintance of Ford's. "This conspiracy to commit murder was financially motivated," a prosecutor told reporters after searching Ford's home. Ford referred reporters to his lawyer, saying only, "It's just a crazy, crazy situation...
...Holden; Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Brown. Nearly all of Hemingway's heroes are defeated in Winner Take Nothing and in the novels. In To Have and Have Not, Harry Morgan had not. The dark, antiheroes of a time as recent as the 1970s have disappeared too--De Niro in Taxi Driver, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. Bruce Springsteen sang about his "town full of losers." In Rocky 28, our hero may finally knock out Adrian, but in his first fight (1976) he lost beautifully...