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Harvard faces similarly daunting foes when it travels to Stanford for the Stanford/Nike Tournament from Oct. 3-5, where it will play Stanford and nationally-ranked Cal-Berkeley. Locker predicts that Stanford will also have a national rank before the season ends...
...lesson learned the hard way. Six years after the Rodney King beating, Los Angeles is policed very differently. The L.A.P.D. has shown impressive progress. Its percentage of white officers has decreased from 61.3% in March '91 to 50% in July '97, producing a rank and file less likely to see a minority community as a hostile planet. The proportion of female officers, whom studies show are less prone to abusive behavior, has increased from 13.3% to 17.4% in the same time period. Citizen complaints are monitored by a new office of inspector general. "It's quite a different face...
Dossey helped bring that about by initiating a massive retraining of the L.A.P.D. rank and file. The 25-year veteran officer converted 8,000 use-of-force reports into a statistical database, which he then used to re-create a blow-by-blow account of prototypical police altercations. With that information in hand, the L.A.P.D. assembled a panel of experts who spent five years testing new, custom-tailored apprehension techniques...
...church's use of power and guilt to collect a 10% tithe from its members. The IRS might find out what happens to church members who fall short of the 10%: privileges and positions are withheld; there is no admission to any temple; and they cannot reach the top rank of the three levels of heaven. TRACY A. BREEDING Denton...
Trey Parker, 27, and Matt Stone, 26, have had the sort of Hollywood good fortune that must rank right up there on the wish list of slacker filmmakers with dinner invitations from Parker Posey. Former film students at the University of Colorado, Parker and Stone were trying to make a go of it in the movie business in 1995, when they got a call from Brian Graden, then an executive at Fox 2000, who offered them an intriguing project. In search of livelier-than-average holiday greetings, Graden commissioned the pair to make a video Christmas card...