Word: succeeded
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Despite Wednesday?s admission by one of the cops that Biko was effectively beaten to death, Hawthorne says the policemen are appealing on the basis that beating up apartheid?s foes was part of their job: ?As bizarre as it may sound, they may succeed on that basis.? There are precedents of policemen being indemnified for killings on the grounds that they were committed in the line of duty, and Hawthorne believes ?these guys may well be able to do the same thing...
Media panelists diverged over the question of whether women had to play by different rules than men in order to succeed...
...words that has exploded between the two. Monday's rounding up of Islamic militants by Palestinian security teams helps her; the fact that Hamas vowed to continue suicide attacks against Israel does not. Israeli police were put on high alert in preparation for her arrival. Will she succeed? Tune in Thursday to find...
...such aggressive policing, crime did dip. Crime also dropped in cities practicing community policing, which I define as a partnership effort with neighborhood groups in solving such problems as noisy bars, crack houses and prostitution. As police chief for 15 years in San Jose, Calif., I saw this approach succeed many times where indiscriminate crackdowns had failed. San Jose became the safest large city in America, while maintaining excellent police relations with its citizens, most of whom were members of minority groups...
...future of America's antipoverty efforts may look a lot like Allen A.M.E. As the nation wrestles with how to reform a failed welfare system, and as more than 35 million Americans continue to live below the poverty line, government is increasingly asking churches to succeed where social workers and bureaucrats handing out checks have failed. State and local welfare departments are starting up innovative partnerships with religious institutions. And a little-noticed provision in last year's welfare-reform law called "charitable choice" has opened the door for the nation's 260,000 religious congregations to take...