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...Each candidate was awarded a number of delegates corresponding to the percentage of people standing in its corner. Out of the seven allotted in this fake precinct obsessed with pet hierarchy, four went to the dogs, three went to Uncommitted, and none went to the birds since so many of them got confused during realignment that they strayed from their corner. While much was learned about how caucuses work, more was learned about the intelligence of people who own birds...
...forensics labs in major cities now run ballistics tests and check the DNA of suspects and victims, and one such lab reportedly identified the decomposed bodies of the Shenzhen women. Closer to street level, the Ministry of Public Security is instituting "community policing" to move cops out of big precinct houses and into smaller, neighborhood stations...
...Assault on Precinct...
This movie is horror at its most basic: a cop, two criminals and two women holding down a police precinct in the middle of a city against an invading gang with unlimited members that want to kill all of them. This is one of John Carpenter’s first movies. It is a western in the sense it is an extended standoff. However, its real roots are as an urban horror story echoing the fears of many city dwellers as the ’70s progressed: the city is just as much of a trap as the country...
...would be very attractive housing; two, it would be very close to the existing undergraduate housing complex; and three, it would reinforce the idea that Allston was going to be a precinct with as much appeal as Cambridge over time...