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...months in office his honeymoon still isn't over. Not only do 75% of voters in metro Denver approve of his job performance, but 61% of folks in the region, including the Republican-leaning outlying suburbs, rate the mayor favorably as well, according to a new poll. Asked to explain his popularity, Hickenlooper fumbles for an answer. "I try not to gloss over reality," he says. "If I don't know the answer, I'll say that...
...control families or be policemen within families, but just to help with families who are in difficulty," says Garnier, the local council official. While officials continue to say they did nothing wrong, the rumblings about institutional failure finally exploded earlier this month when police officers took the stand to explain what went wrong. Le Monde said Angers' police and judges were using "evasive justifications" about why they missed more than a year of warnings about child prostitution. And the town's local newspaper Le Courrier de l'Ouest said the police "with greater resources without doubt would have stopped...
...increasingly convinced that hordes of murderous undead little girls roam Hollywood, feasting upon unwary directors. How else to explain their prevalence, and the shorthand for creepiness they represent, in films from “The Ring” to “The Others” to the remake of “The Amityville Horror?...
Instead of stripping away our rights of free speech and freedom from unwarranted government searches or seizures, the PATRIOT Act simply applies to anti-terrorism procedures the long-standing practices used in standard policing. Detractors might be hard-pressed to explain why, prior to the Act, authorities could apply for a roving wiretap (allowing surveillance over all a suspect’s communications) if a drug dealer switched cell-phones but could not if a suspected terrorist did the same. Similarly, the controversial “sneak and peek” provision of the Act—which grants warrants...
...published the short story “Miracle” in the New Yorker last summer, my mother saved a copy of the magazine for me. “I don’t get it,” she said. “Can you explain to me what’s going...