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There is, sad to say, only one beautiful heroic mess of a man left in the land. It is Rodney Dangerfield, who claims to have received a sweepstakes letter that read, "You may already be a loser." Rodney also says that when he enters an elevator, the operator asks, "Down?" Looks like...
...Only on Feb. 1 did Kerasiotes admit publicly that the cost of the project would increase to $12.2 billion. This prompted U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater to announce that federal funds for the Big Dig would be cut off unless the state came up with a viable plan for financing the project by March 15. As the federal government is paying about 70 percent of the Big Dig costs, such a freeze would be a catastrophic blow to the project...
...Angeles Police Department has had a troubled history, from the pervasive corruption of the 1930s and '40s to the bitter feelings of the city's minority communities toward former chief Daryl Gates' department, culminating in the uproar over the 1991 beating of Rodney King. But the Rampart scandal has taken police misconduct to a new level of lawlessness and given currency to a new term: the gangster cop--not much different from the gang members the police are battling. As investigators work to get to the bottom of it all--and to separate the good cops from...
...department's heads vowed to accept the reforms detailed in the Christopher Report, which was compiled by a public-private panel following the Rodney King beating. One portion of the report called for "a new standard of accountability," and predicted that "ugly incidents will not diminish until ranking officers know they will be held responsible for what happens in their sector, whether or not they personally participate." Yet despite LAPD commissioner Bernard Parks' 1998 announcement that the department had met all of the Christopher Report's recommendations, the new report concludes that "regardless of the source, complaints all seemed...
...larger question of race relations within the U.S. are far from solved. But the intelligent response of the black community and the general recognition that police brutality is a problem that cannot be explained away with instructional videotapes shows that we have come a long way since the Rodney King trial...