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SONG: Highway Patrolman ALBUM: Nebraska LYRIC: "I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville, barracks number eight/I always done an honest job as honest as I could/ I've got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no good" SLANT...
...patrolman bridled at the practice of leaving polluters unmolested. Ron Gatto is a burly fireplug of a man with 21-in. (53-cm) biceps. He once bench-pressed a trophy-winning 575 lbs. (261 kg). Gatto grew up in Westchester County, just north of New York City. He joined the police in 1982 to fight the polluters who were despoiling the green landscapes and the reservoirs he had fished as a boy. Instead, he recalls, his bosses had him drive around and chase swimmers...
...attacks against major web sites, it's an idea whose time has come - President Clinton endorsed the proposal Tuesday and asked Congress to rubber-stamp $9 million in funding. The creation of the center is an acknowledgment that the federal government is going to act more as jailkeeper than patrolman in policing the Internet. The major leads in the case so far, which have zeroed in on a sophisticated West Coast-based cyber-vandal, a copycat in Canada and a German hacker, have been produced by either private firms or web surfers...
...listener to question the choices made in assembling previous albums. It is difficult to say why "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the second disk's meditative song about the Vietnam War dead, did not make the cut for Nebraska, which included not only several forgettable songs--"Highway Patrolman," "Used Cars"--but also some of Springsteen's most idiotic whooping ("State Trooper"). In general, though, it seems that Springsteen's editorial taste has been very good: the songs on the second disk (1980-83) often feel as if they might have been perfect for 1984's Born...
Officials said the guards' union, the Harvard University Patrolman's Union, will meet Nov. 17 with Kim A. Roberts '78, Harvard's labor negotiator. Harvard officials characterized the meeting as a "get acquainted session," but union chief Steve McCone will likely ask Roberts about a long-discussed buyout plan for experienced guards and argue the guard's side of a three-year-old contract dispute...