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...believes there is room for China's leaders to be convinced that it serves their own long-term interests to safeguard the legal rights of people like the miner Zhao. Chen, a member of the Communist Party with a Ph.D. from a top law school, once worked as a policeman and later as a judge in a Beijing court. Both experiences, he says, strengthened his conviction that China needs more people who can "demonstrate to the leadership that the rule of law needs to be strengthened and that citizens' rights should expand." In the legal-theory classes that Chen teaches...
...natural selection, a host of natural enemies have evolved: think the lion and water-buffalo, the cobra and the mongoose, and the police officer and the college student. When each meet, violence typically occurs: The mongoose enters a death-tango with the cobra. The University of California, Los Angeles policeman tasers students in the library. This is nature. However, as human beings, we have the ability to overcome nature’s imperatives through the use of civilizing institutions like mutual respect, and porta-potties. The tailgate didn’t achieve much, but the peaceful existence of a high...
...Along came Yanniv Hazout, 25, a Paris supporter who had come to the game sporting the colors of his favorite club, Hapoel. With shouts of "kill the Jews", and "the dirty Jew must die," the mob set after the fleeing Hazout. Spotting a lynching in the making, plain-clothes policeman Antoine Granomort thrust himself between Hazout and the mob, fending off kicks and punches with sprays of tear gas. With the horde's racist frenzy escalating at the sight of the Jewish Hazout shielded by Granomont, who is black, the cop pulled out his service revolver, ordered his attackers...
...smooth so far—like my favorite kind of peanut butter,” he remarks.2:00 p.m.—The Sinister Turns have attracted a fairly large crowd by the time they take the stage. Their set comes to an untimely end, however, when an apologetic policeman shows up to shut down the show along with the rest of the Tailgate.Hufstedler tries to negotiate, but is thwarted in her crusade when the officer threatens to pull the plug.Having played only two short songs, it seems that the Turns will thus be shut out of consideration for prizes...
...good idea to send Sergeant Santos Cardona, a dog handler convicted of abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, back to serve again in Iraq. What's more, his unit's job was to help train Iraqi police, a curious assignment for a military policeman caught in photographs distributed worldwide doing just the sort of thing peace officers should never...