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...Abner Louima at the hands of New York City police. Cases like that grab national headlines, but they are aberrations. More systemic and infinitely harder to root out is a more common form of corruption: too many cops in too many places who routinely flout the laws they are sworn to uphold, cops who come to view the law itself as a maze of misguided rules that hinder their ability to "get the job done...
Then one night when he was house sitting in Westwood, he heard a noise in the kitchen and noticed an open window he could have sworn had been closed. Next thing you know, he's creeping around with a butcher knife in one hand and a cell phone in the other, his friend across town posing Freddy and Jason trivia questions and gleefully whispering "Kill, kill, kill...
Galluccio said he wants to wait to declare his candidacy until the new mayor is selected by the city councillors, which will take place sometime after they are sworn in on Jan. 5. Galluccio said he hopes he will win the mayoralty, which in Cambridge is symbolic...
...ground controllers had different ideas. "Stay at your post!" they ordered. Tsibliyev repeated his request a few minutes later, and was told again, "Stay at your post!" At NASA, once the sworn rival of the Soviet space program, such an order would probably not stand, not when the pilots being commanded were self-styled cowboys like Alan Shepard or Gordon Cooper. But the Russian program was a different beast, and cosmonauts learn early that the word of the ground is all but inviolable. Tsibliyev, despite himself, stayed at his post...
Clearly Baltimore faces expenses its suburban peers don't. With many of its schools in high-crime areas, the Baltimore system spends more than $5 million a year to field its own sworn--and armed--police force of 112 personnel, whose overtime pay alone would be enough to provide the starting salaries of two dozen full-time teachers. But the city must also pay the routine expenses faced by every school system, the largest of which is always salaries. Last year Baltimore spent $260.4 million to pay teachers and other staff members associated with regular instruction. It paid its special...