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...FATHER of Siggi, the narrator, is a policeman by the name of Jens Ole Jepsen. Jepsen honors duty above all things. "I don't ask what good it does a man to do his duty, nor whether it's good for him or not," he remarks. "Where would it get us all if every time we did something we asked ourselves what it was going to lead to?" Jepsen never asks. He turns in his son Klaas as a deserter with the same alacrity and sense of duty that he feels when he spanks naughty Siggi or rescues...
JOHN EDGAR HOOVER'S death at 77 refreshed memories of an extraordinary fund of Americana-a long, single-minded and complicated life that became a unique national presence. Hoover and the FBI were one-creator and creation. He served eight Presidents as the world's most powerful policeman. With a genius for administration and popular myth, he fashioned his career as an improbable bureaucratic morality play peopled by bad guys and G-men. The drama worked well enough when everyone agreed on the villains-"Pretty Boy" Floyd, John Dillinger, Nazi agents-but finally curdled somewhat in more ambiguous...
...curses the driver. He has to step on the brakes. When he starts again, we continue our excursion and our cursing." From a 14-year-old boy: "My father is a real rowdy behind the wheel. He has been stopped more than 40 times by his archenemy, the village policeman. I'm sure when I grow up I shall not be like that...
...prestige, of power and potency. Being passed by a faster car, for example, represents a loss of sexual grandeur. Traffic here is still acted out on the irrational level of male rivalry." A Viennese police department traffic expert shares the psychiatrist's pessimism. "No driving school, no policeman, can teach drivers a considerate and responsible attitude," he says, "when parents curse like fishwives and show their naked aggressions during every weekend outing...
...Ralph Salerno, a former New York City policeman and an expert on the Mafia, believes that the Mob killings could take a more ominous turn. "The gangsters do have rules about murders," he says. "There are rules against killing law-enforcement officials. Other rules forbid killing reporters. But if society does nothing about gang slayings, the gangsters may decide to change the rules and hit anybody who gets in their way. Remember, the rules are theirs-not ours...