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...Enforcement. A suburban Miami policeman has been arrested on charges of robbery, kidnaping and attempted murder, while two city officers. were charged with cocaine possession. Detectives are also looking into the whereabouts of $150,000 missing from police undercover funds. Last week's urine-test lineup indicates that honest officers are more than a little concerned...
...Chinese truffles have even infiltrated the center of French-truffle production. Every week, Cubaynes claims, these merchants show up at the market in Lalbenque with the same number of truffles in their baskets, a suspicious constancy. "It's cheating the consumer," says Cubaynes, "and it's also cheating the honest worker...
...while his news writing is straight to the point, his book is—in a way—more honest...
...purposefully resists the memoir category, instead subtitling the text a “memory loop.” The framework of this generic rechristening helps Lelyveld avoid some of memoir’s more obvious traps, self-indulgence among them, but it is fundamentally less than honest: “Omaha Blues” is still a memoir, and only a fair one at that...
...each of the three former Soviet states, instead of meekly accepting the make-believe re-election of deeply corrupt leaders, average citizens courageously took to the streets, demanded honest government and honest elections, and led a democratic revolution. Neither this nor the first flowering of democracy in the Middle East has been foisted upon reluctant people by the barrel of a gun; rather, it reflects the action of individuals who demanded a say in their government. Before our faith in the common man, the ability of average people, succumbs to cultured intellectual cynicism or sophisticated anti-democratic snobbery, we should...