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...import dock. Those agents have to inspect insurance, driver's licenses and immigration papers and look for narcotics and violations of trade-compliance laws. Checking a vehicle for faulty brakes or bald tires is way down the list and not necessarily a customs agent's responsibility, according to chief inspector David Higgerson, the cargo director for U.S. Customs in southern Texas...
...scandal has inspired a lot of finger pointing. Deutch reprimanded seven agency officers, six of whom had already retired. Frederick Hitz, the CIA inspector general, recommended that the last three agency directors (William Webster, Robert Gates and R. James Woolsey) "be held accountable." The three ex-directors sent an angry letter to Deutch insisting that they had never been told by subordinates that the sensitive intelligence was tainted...
...Nazi occupation--promising, in return, to read Les Miserables to him on the way to the Swiss border. Much of the film focuses on the fracturing of this family and their terrible struggle to survive. In the meantime, of course, Fortin is obsessively pursued by his version of Inspector Javert, here a nameless policeman collaborating with the Nazis and a man seemingly as outraged by Fortin's lack of complexity as he is by his untutored goodness...
Greenebaum and others point to some signs of progress. The police chief, for example, is now limited to two five-year terms. And a new inspector general, who reports directly to the police commission, may offer much needed oversight. The A.C.L.U.'s Ripston notes that brutality complaints have dropped. (They were down to 1,506 last year, from 1,825 in 1993.) Williams' boosters say the L.A.P.D. is more sensitive because of him, but no one credibly argues that the core problem has been solved. L.A.'s cop culture still has room for arrogant "cowboys" who ride roughshod over...
...lost little boys. They think a better name for Steven would be Franz Lidz, resonant as it is with romantic and artistic striving. They think a Bar Mitzvah is essential to his spiritual growth. And you never can tell when lessons in evading government functionaries (like a building inspector) will come in handy. Somehow they get Steven safely through his first encounters with mortality and onrushing manhood...