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...saddest, for some reason, is the one Baker uses to begin his book. An angry wife grumbles about "my husband, the cop. Always has to be the big man." When neighbors ask him to fix tickets, she says, he tells them, "No problem." She goes on: "The big, important policeman. Do you know how he fixes tickets? He goes downtown and he pays them, that's how he fixes tickets." This is a tough, grubby book, and a good job of listening. --By John Skow
...Anglican lay associate, Waite was drawn to the church, he has said, for "its passionate coolness, its mixture of authority and freedom." The son of a policeman, he grew up in the northwestern English village of Styal. He took a degree at a church college and headed to Uganda in 1968 as an adviser to the local archbishop. He and his wife Frances, who have three daughters and a son, were once held at gunpoint during a mass expulsion of foreigners following Idi Amin Dada's takeover in 1971. After working in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican...
...CHOSEN. DONALD TSANG, 60, bow tie-donning top civil servant; as Hong Kong's next Chief Executive, by an 800-member Election Committee; in Hong Kong. Tsang, the son of a policeman, secured nominations from more than 700 of the delegates, precluding the need for a formal vote. He takes his oath in Beijing this week and will then complete the remaining two years of the second term of former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, who resigned in March...
Much of the year, the air in Beijing hangs as thick as egg-drop soup. Even the billboards promoting a "green Olympics" in 2008 are covered in grime. And this ancient city, where a traffic policeman's life expectancy hovers around 40 years, is hardly alone. The World Bank calls China home to 16 of the 20 most polluted cities on earth, making the country's blighted environment a cautionary corollary to its economic success. Environmental degradation robs the nation of up to 12% of its GDP, according to the World Bank, and each year 300,000 Chinese die prematurely...
...embarassed to be a policeman on that field seeing what I had to see,” Evans told the Crimson in November...