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...admired, a society must break up. The easiest way to stop corruption is to have the minimum of opportunities for public officers to exercise discretion. So have open rules. One of the most difficult things to establish is a culture hostile to corruption. Once you accept that the policeman can stop you on the road for an alleged traffic violation and you must slip him $2 or $5 to settle it, you are in for very serious trouble...
Fran Benedetto, a nurse married to a New York City policeman named Bobby Benedetto, is finally running away. Helped along by an underground railway for victims of domestic abuse, Fran, after years of beatings and broken bones at Bobby's hands, is vanishing with their 10-year-old son Robert. The oldest American story: escape to reinvent the self. Fran changes her name to Beth Crenshaw and ends up in a dreary garden apartment in inland Florida, an hour from the ocean. She and Robert, afoot beside the Florida highway, have their Thanksgiving dinner at the Chirping Chicken...
...sorcerous Francesca Neri), both of whom are married to jealous policemen. The story (based on a Ruth Rendell novel) begins in 1970 with a prostitute giving birth to Victor on a Madrid bus and, within half an hour, doles out drugs, sex, a triangular gun battle and a paraplegic policeman (Javier Bardem) who plays basketball in the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona...
...Behind the Birmingham Bomb An off-duty policeman was killed in Birmingham, Ala., in what is believed to be the first-ever fatal bombing of an abortion clinic. Is there an Atlanta connection...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Could there be a link between Thursday's bombing of an Alabama abortion clinic, which killed an off-duty policeman, and previous similar attacks in nearby Atlanta ? including the Olympic Park bombing? TIME's Atlanta correspondent, Sylvester Monroe, reports that while there is a "psychological connection," it is still too early to draw any firm parallels. The bombs used in the two Atlanta attacks were pipe bombs packed with nails, and their resemblance could possibly indicate a single perpetrator. There is still no word from the FBI or ATF on the type of device used in Birmingham...