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...President Bush plans to visit Central America, the demons of corruption, drug dealing and murder there that have long been kept under wraps, either by official complicity or negligence, are beginning to attract public scrutiny. Eight brazen and grisly murders -three Salvadoran congressmen and their driver, and four Guatemalan policemen -have shaken the two countries' governments and shed light on the criminal underworld operating with impunity from inside police forces...
...What gave you the idea for Infernal Affairs? My father and brother are both policemen. When I was small, my father told me stories about moles inside the triads, and what happened to them...
...Palmer Street and forcing about a dozen local businesses to be evacuated, according to Deputy Fire Chief James F. Burns. Firemen were summoned to the scene after black smoke and flames were seen shooting up from the manholes. Several fire trucks and ambulances arrived, completely blockading the area. Policemen directed traffic and curious bystanders away from the firefighters as they battled the subterranean flames...
...Harvard policemen stand sentry between the Barker Center and Lamont Libary, while a man wheels potted plants across the street. And inside Barker, the humanities building in which Faust is scheduled to meet the press around 4 p.m., technicians are setting up the stage for a news conference in the ornate Thompson Room. Looming over a snazzy red background that says "Harvard University" over and over is the sage, bronze head of John Harvard...
...Germany's Wirtschaftswunder traveled with armed bodyguards and avoided commercial airlines for fear of being blown out of the sky; police set aside civil liberties in a hunt for suspects that engendered something close to national hysteria. The RAF targeted and killed bankers, business titans, jurists, bureaucrats and policemen in a delusional campaign of "armed struggle" aimed at revealing a fascist core beneath the self-satisfied mien of West Germany's democratic institutions. In those "years of lead," West Germany seemed hopelessly at war with itself, its self-confidence shaken to the core...