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...Decades later, the stirred memory of that photo suggested the plot of Qiu's Red Mandarin Dress, the fifth and latest of his popular, Shanghai-set Inspector Chen detective novels. This time, Qiu's hero, a cop and poet, is on the trail of a serial killer who dresses his female victims in tailored qipao dresses - a macabre gesture freighted with political meaning. As in the previous books, the investigation leads Inspector Chen to a brutal legacy from the past, for even the most vicious of Qiu's criminals are victims of China's bloody history. So, incidentally, are many...
...improvement. But informants are not what most people think they are. They are not undercover FBI agents; they are untrained civilians who need something - badly. Usually, they need money or a way to reduce their prison sentences or avoid deportation. Many have criminal records, and the Justice Department's Inspector General reported in 2005 that 10% of a sampling of informants had committed new, unauthorized crimes while working...
...remember anything about what's happened or why he's come forward. He had no memory at all," said Inspector Helen Eustace of the Cleveland police department, which handled the investigation into Darwin's disappearance. A police statement added that Darwin appears to be "fit and well...
...original version of this article incorrectly included former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz as one of the number of Bush administration IGs who "have been forced to resign under a cloud as a result of bipartisan pressure, often because of bald incompetence or gross interference with the IG mission." While at least one Democrat and one Republican senator were raising questions about Schmitz's job performance at the time of his resignation in September of 2005, Schmitz had in fact conveyed to the Secretary of Defense his decision to step down a year before. Moreover in October...
...complaints. In October, Amy Todd told the council she called the hotline after having caught or found dead some 9 rats. She said she was “very impressed by the city’s initial response to the problem,” but after an inspector found no points of entry for the rodents around the outside of her building, she said the city washed its hands of the affair. “Rats began coming in again, and I called the rodent hotline again, but I was told that at this point, there was nothing the city...