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...could call Clockers a detective story. There's a detective and there are bad guys, some of them detectives too, some not. There is also a crime that needs solving, which is a slight oddity in "Dempsy," a shabby, 24-hour-a-day nightworld located between Newark and Jersey City. Dempsy's crimes, mostly involving drugs, accumulate in the streets like garbage, but usually they don't require solving, just hosing away. There's nothing mysterious about what's going...
...more and more -- and Los Angeles brought it home dramatically -- is that you can't isolate yourself in your little island of self-interest," says New Jersey Governor Jim Florio. "In a place like New Jersey, you can go from Short Hills, a very affluent community, to Newark in the space of 10 minutes...
Other candidates for director are: Carla M. Okiwage '65, executive director of the Seattle King Country Housing Development Consortium; Philip J. Peters '67, senior physician at the Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic; Harry L.Shipman '69, director of the Center for TeachingEffectiveness at the University of Delaware,Newark; and Karen C. Van Winkle '80, sales managerat Herman Miller in Boston...
...offense, Roche, who was the highest-ranking IRS criminal investigator in New Jersey until he retired in 1988, faces up to 12 years in prison. "I'm afraid these kinds of business crimes will become more and more prominent in the future," says U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff, whose Newark office is involved in both the IRS and Social Security cases. "Information has become so valuable, and the government is really its largest consumer." Without tougher monitoring from within, the government may also unwittingly become its largest vendor...
...breakdown was the latest in a series of embarrassing mishaps plaguing AT&T, the premier U.S. provider of telecommunications services. Last year a software glitch at a New York City switching center disrupted AT&T's nationwide network for seven hours, and last January a repair crew in Newark shut down service to millions of consumers and businesses when workers accidentally cut a high-capacity fiber-optic phone cable. Last week's misadventure will not enhance AT&T's reputation for reliability and could persuade some customers to farm out more business to the company's rivals MCI and Sprint...