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...McBain, defined the genre of the gritty, graphic police procedural novel; of cancer of the larynx; in Weston, Conn. Under his real name, he wrote the acclaimed 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but none approached the popularity of his 87th Precinct series, which, beginning with 1956's Cop Hater, followed the personal and professional lives of a team of utterly human cops solving brutal crimes and paved the way for countless crime writers and hit TV shows like Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue...
Neither officers of the 24th Precinct nor representatives of the Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information would confirm reports, saying the investigation is ongoing. At press time, the medical examiner’s office had not released results from an autopsy conducted Saturday...
...general insights into 9/11, al-Qaeda operations and ongoing planning for future attacks." But the initial questioning by the FBI went poorly. "We were getting nothing from him," a senior Pentagon official says. "He had been trained to resist direct questioning. And what works in a Chicago police precinct doesn't work...
...Means of Ascent,” to describe the shameless way Johnson misleadingly portrayed his more conservative opponent as a lackey of big labor. Johnson won the primary after a local political boss “corrected a mistake” in the ballots for one precinct...
...DeLay's own district, Republicans are so alarmed they are already mobilizing to defend him in an election that is still nearly a year and half away. Says Jared Woodfill, GOP chairman in nearby Harris county: "We're getting e-mails and calls from the base, the precinct chairs and the phone bank people saying what can we do to help now? Usually that doesn't happen until six months before an election...