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...foreign policy and the "judicial dictatorship in America." Buchanan's running mate: Ezola Foster, a former typing teacher and current John Birch Society member who may be the only African-American living in L.A. who supported LAPD officers Stacy Koons and Larry Powell when they were charged with violating Rodney King's civil rights by beating him to a pulp. And if that weren't disturbing enough, she looks like a cross between Tammy Faye Bakker and Eartha Kitt...
...quest to label the incident has been frustrating and clumsy. Jones is not another Rodney King, as some have suggested. For one thing, King was pursued for speeding. Jones was allegedly driving a stolen car, ramming bystanders and possibly firing at police. "There are more dissimilarities than similarities," says Laurie Levenson, a Loyola Law School professor. "With Rodney King, it was deliberate, coordinated and brutal." The Philadelphia cops, by contrast, "look disorganized and scared. It's sort of like everybody piling on in the schoolyard...
...applicants plummet from 32,000 to 15,000; in the next five years, Minnesota expects to retire half of its police forces statewide. The aging of baby-boomer cops is partly to blame. So is the profession's tarnished reputation in incidents ranging from the racially charged 1991 Rodney King beating in Los Angeles to the recent wilding incident in New York City's Central Park, where assaulted women claimed cops did nothing to help them. Recruitment has been especially difficult among minority candidates. "You used to see a line around the block with people applying to be an officer...
...Hoya Lazaro Gonzales (great uncle): John Belushi Marisleysis (second cousin): Mary Tyler Moore Armando Gutierrez (family spokesman): Sinbad Greg Craig (fathers lawyer): Leslie Nielson Janet Reno: Jack Palance Fidel Castro: Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) Donato Dairymple: Chevy Chase Diane Sawyer: Victoria Jackson Bill Clinton: Hugh Hefner Al Gore: Rodney Dangerfield
...Rodney Brooks is director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at M.I.T...