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The payments appear to have violated a $500 annual cap on tuition reimbursements set for municipal workers in 1986. The city has spent a total of approximately $25,000 each year for the last three years on such payments, according to City Personnel Director Robert Consalvo.
Consalvo said that the tuition reimbursement program was an important one for municipal employees and that "most progressive firms have them." The program is designed to provide city employees with a better background in their field in order to improve job performance.
His talents come in handy. In the America of the 1990s, corporations have become all-powerful. They run police departments for municipal governments like caterers run restaurants for hotels. Corporate executives control everything, and as Robocop soon learns, it is a businessman named Dick who masterminded Murphy's murder.
So who killed Carolyn Polhemus? There is a simple answer to that question, of course, and Presumed Innocent eventually provides it. But the novel has aspirations well beyond those of the run-of-the-mill whodunit. Turow uses Carolyn's grotesque death as a means of exposing the trail of...
Aykroyd's Friday is a smart parody and often a sharp instrument for social satire. Tom Hanks is not so lucky: he must represent relativistic contemporary values to Friday. It is simply not a fair fight. And both of them are overwhelmed by a story that unlike the old Dragnet...