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...homes. Too often, police complain, the commanders and commissioners who cops imagined would guide and protect them seem to ignore or betray them instead. "Frequently, officers feel that somewhere on the line between lieutenant and captain, these people change," says Scott Allen, clinical psychologist for the 3,200-member Metro-Dade police department in Florida. "The command loses touch with the soldiers...
...escalator at the Metro's Stadium/Armory stop churned out Dead-heads into the muggy District afternoon, capitalism's sores ran openly. Professional scalpers wanted double the face value of tickets. Sadly, they had learned the some of the tour lingo and snapped, "I've got your miracle right here for 40 bucks." But the real Dead-head, with Friedman in mind and set lists in hand, pressed on; miracles are not bought from people draped in gold and beepers...
...stark contrast to this conspicuous opulence, one need only walk to the nearest metro station. Filled with lavish mosaics, frosted chandeliers and archways of stained glass, the metro offered a magnificent expression of Soviet splendor that belied the brutality of the era that produced it. Yet for millions of Muscovites who ride the trains each day, the metro no longer provides a voyage through a subterranean communist cathedral, whose effect is both sumptuous and muscular. Today it is overrun with beggars, reeling drunks and small-time entrepreneurs dragging trollies laden with crates and boxes...
Today at least 40,000 street tramps sleep in Moscow's metro tunnels and solicit change outside its new temples of affluence. That is still less than half the estimated homeless population of a city of comparable size, such as New York City. But places like Kursky station have become overrun by these panhandlers. Some are tubercular. Others are covered with skin ulcers and body sores. The existence of most is sufficient to provoke the spleen of passersby. "Disorder, dirt and a total lack of care for others," says Vera Alexeyev, a housewife who has lived in the city...
...They marry; he moves to Paris to be with her; they open a salon. But suddenly he is impotent, and Dominique sues for divorce. When Karol tries to reconcile, she sets their salon on fire and tells the police he did it. He is reduced to begging in the Metro. Could life get worse? Oh, yes. As Karol watches her bedroom from the street, Dominique makes adulterous love and, when he calls, moans her infidelity into the phone. Before he can hang up, the phone company steals his last two francs. Karol tucks himself into his only suitcase and escapes...