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...speaking hypothetically. Giuliani had just finished an appearance at the Los Angeles County sheriff's office, where he hoped to remind people of his record on law and order while having his picture taken with California's socially liberal Republican Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. One of the things some G.O.P. leaders like about Giuliani is that he might appeal to Schwarzenegger moderates, forcing the Democrats to play defense in California and other big-vote states like New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. But reporters didn't ask him about gang violence or the Golden State's 55 electoral votes. The questions...
...Macomb County had dominated Detroit, pushing aside the region's larger, ongoing travail - the decline of Ford Motor Co. and reports that DaimlerChrysler wanted to dump its American partner. Then, last week, the grisly discovery of the missing woman's dismembered torso in the family garage shocked even the sheriff. "We were expecting to find a computer but we didn't think we'd find any remains or body parts. It was quite a surprise. It wasn't what we expected," said Sheriff Mark Hackel...
...Police asked for a search warrant after a hiker in a nearby park not far from the Grant home found a plastic bag with rubber gloves, blood stains and metal shavings and brought it to the sheriff's department, says Hackel. Grant's husband Stephen had appeared frequently on local television after his wife's disappearance pleading for her return. But after police discovered the his wife's remains hidden in the garage, Grant fled to northern Michigan, where he was later found wandering shoeless in a snowed-in wooded area. As he was treated for frostbite, Grant admitted...
...acted like a dean,” and whose capacity for deference made him seem a pushover to many (he wasn’t), was succeeded by the tough talking and tough acting Lawrence H. Summers, whose advent was described as “a new sheriff in town.” If the Corporation behaves true to form, it will be looking for the not Larry Summers...
...those differences during the campaign, tacking to the right and touting the support of many New Orleans area African- American ministers, who are key in the city's get-out-the-vote drives. And he benefited from a late-in-the-game outburst from Harry Lee, the controversial sheriff of neighboring Jefferson Parish, much of which falls within the congressional district. Lee, incensed by Carter's appearance in the Spike Lee documentary When the Levees Broke, in which she took Jefferson Parish officials to task for turning back pedestrians trying to escape New Orleans via a bridge over the Mississippi...