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More Police for Los Angeles New Republican Mayor Richard Riordan of Los Angeles announced plans last week to hire nearly 2,500 officers over the next five years and increase the number of officers on street beats...
...make some major repairs before the room was habitable. But once he is on the streets, he is on the move, following a tricky routine perfected by reporters since the first U.S. troops landed last December. ''Getting around depends entirely on your translator and the driver and guards you hire,'' he reports. ''The right translator makes all the difference. 'Said' saved my life in December by talking a gunman out of shooting me for looking like an American.'' (He's actually Canadian.) Guards are also important: several gunmen protecting Andrew fired back when his truck was ambushed in the Bakhara...
...Tribeca. Wallpapering the film is the work of 37 modern artists, which was flown at great expense from New York City to Universal's California studios. A budget of $30 million and change ought to be enough to get this down right. Isn't, though, because somebody forgot to hire a story editor. The incidents in a comedy-thriller can be implausible but never absurd, and Legal Eagles is pocked with absurdities. Trapped in a warehouse about to be blown to shards, klutzy Assistant D.A. Tom Logan (Redford) and plucky Lawyer Laura Kelly (Winger) find a forklift tractor...
...author gives an awkward label to this new relationship between consumers and producers: consumer-generated media (CGM). Luckily, he says, this bond can be monitored, measured and repaired: "Whether you hire a major firm like Nielsen Online, Cymfony/TNS, Umbria or BuzzLogic, or use any of the various free tools available online, you should be religiously mining the Web to understand what CGM is saying about your brand...
...Walling Off the Border Re your Mexico-U.S. border fence story: There's another aspect worth examining [July 7]. The illegals come to the U.S. seeking employment. Levying a hefty fine on employers who hire them would do a lot toward deterring illegals' entry. No jobs, not so many illegals. And some of those who are here would want to go home. W.B. McLain, Yakima, Washington...