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Director Jerry Zaks makes his intentions plain even before the characters really start talking. From a men's room tucked into the corner of a scabrous press bullpen in a criminal-courts building, out walk a trollop and a policeman adjusting his clothes after what has obviously been a brief but close encounter. Gradually the room fills with journalists who gamble, politicians who steal, gangsters who peddle influence, and an editor who employs leg breakers to circulate his paper. This is a town festering with corruption, and everyone aspires only to scrabble to the top of the dung heap. Life...
Both grew up in Nottingham, in England's Midlands, and came from families of modest means. His father was an electrician; her parents ran a candy shop. He became a policeman, she a secretary. But every free hour they were on the ice, practicing...
...America is the policeman and Russia is the criminal," Schwartz added...
...doctrine that one cannot take life to protect property is rooted in English common law. The law -- a leading precedent came from Florida's Supreme Court in 1981 -- is particularly wary of deadly traps, which act without discrimination. Rasheed's victim "could very easily have been a fireman, a policeman or someone who just wandered into the store," says James Mullin, chairman of the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter...
...Waite is not a man who is easily deterred from a goal. While Waite was growing up in the northwestern English village of Styal, his father, a policeman, frequently exhorted, "If you start something, see it through to the finish." Waite has toyed from time to time with the idea of being ordained, but so far he has decided to remain a layman. Nonetheless, his career has almost always been in church affairs. After studying theology at London's Church Army College, he worked as a lay training adviser to the Anglican Bishop of Bristol. In 1968 he headed...