Word: edwin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite the research, the notion of "female" and "male" policing styles remains a controversial one. Individual temperament is more important than gender in the way cops perform, argues Edwin Delattre, author of Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing. Other experts contend that aggressiveness among officers is more a measure of a department's philosophy and the tone set by its top managers. "When cops are trained to think of themselves as fighters in a war against crime, they come to view the public as the enemy," observes James Fyfe, a criminal-justice professor at The American University...
Speaking at a Harvard Law School Forum last night, former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III defended federal restrictions on the content of Planned Parenthood consultations while warning of the danger that "politically correct" speech codes pose to First Amendment rights...
...Burns makes his subject come alive by focusing on three crucial people. First is Lee DeForest, who patented the key invention that spawned the radio age -- the three-element vacuum tube -- but emerges as something of a self- promoter and con man. Edwin Howard Armstrong, who made important refinements in De Forest's invention and battled him endlessly in the patent courts, is the film's tragic hero: a bullheaded visionary defeated by people smarter and more ruthless than he. David Sarnoff, the founder of NBC, is one of those ruthless people ("I don't get ulcers; I give them...
...cynical when the Lunts brought it to Broadway in the '50s. In a sad measure of the disillusioning years since, it now triumphs as a comedy. Harris Yulin is fine as the betrayer and Jane Alexander dazzling as the raddled revenger. But the real star is Alexander's husband Edwin Sherin, who has directed in high Austro-German style, most of the characters sporting masks and sounding like puppets. He controls the tone unerringly. The simpler and more childlike the telling, the more piercing the satire gets in Broadway's finest revival of the past half-dozen years. W.A.H...
Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Robert Ajemian, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Gavin Scott, Bruce van Voorst...