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Among the people who don't want to see cops back on the beat are many of the cops themselves. Middle-level department brass are suspicious of plans that make patrol officers more independent. Many of the rank-and-file personnel also scoff at anything that smacks of social work. "There's an unfounded fear that it detracts from the macho image and takes the fun out of putting the bad guys in jail," says Carolyn Robison, a Tulsa police major. A lot of officers just don't like walking. For years, being assigned to the beat was a standard...
Although some may scoff at Club MTV, says Harper, the show is fun, and closet viewers are everywhere...
...European Community. (To say nothing of the joining of the two Yemens this May.) Integrationists point to the E.C. as the wave of the future, the only hope for peace and prosperity on a planet already suffering from a surfeit of sovereignty. Self-styled realists like Margaret Thatcher, however, scoff at the notion of multinational union as rank Utopianism, a dangerous deviation from the natural human condition of group homogeneity and ethnic sovereignty...
...person's simple humanity ought to be enough to command respect and care from every other member of society. It rarely is. Sophisticated observers may scoff at the Fatimites for relying on myth and superstition, but they cannot scoff at the selflessness and humanity that Fatimite beliefs fostered...
...office was expecting a modest increase, perhaps a tenth as much. "There are two reasons for that number," concedes a Bush adviser, "and both are purely political. First, $500 million rolls off the tongue nicely. It's round and big. Second, a figure that size helps silence those who scoff at the boss as the 'education President.' Think of it as a pre-emptive strike that deflects attention from an overall education budget that won't even keep up with inflation...