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...York. Critics say the unit, whose unofficial motto is "We own the night," cuts legal corners and is too quick to resort to force. "You have to have a new paradigm of policing," says Ron Daniels, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. "This gung-ho, military-type, fraternity-style policing has got to change...
Adams admits there may be some shady operators but says any relationship is risky and notes that the ins found no more evidence of abuse among mail-order couples than among the general public. "Our clients are bank presidents, educators, professionals of every type," he says. His company sells addresses ($9 apiece for two, $7 apiece for up to 13) and leads 11 tours a year to foreign socials, where men can meet the women they've corresponded with. "I've looked all around here and haven't found anyone," says Jeffrey Porter, 48, who owns a construction company...
...life. All he retained of America was his passport and some traces of accent; yet he held onto both until his death. Sargent's relation to America was neither resentful nor yearning, as it is with so many expatriates. He was a cosmopolitan, with the perfect adaptability of that type. His homeland was his talent...
Chow Yun-fat, the epitome of swaggering suavity in John Woo's Hong Kong crime films, wears his role as a good-bad cop dapperly in this good-middling drama set in Manhattan's Chinatown. He's the tough guy teaming with Mark Wahlberg's sweetly anguished type to battle a local triad. Foley (After Dark, My Sweet), who choreographs the snazziest New York car chase since The French Connection, specializes in close-up portraits of people sweating on the inside. But no matter how dank the moral dilemma, Chow will never break a sweat. In Hong Kong...
Want to see how much the world has changed in the past decade? Log on to the Internet, launch a search engine and type in the word enquire (British spelling, please). You'll get about 30,000 hits. It turns out you can "enquire" about nearly anything online these days, from used Harley Davidsons for sale in Sydney, Australia ("Enquire about touring bikes. Click here!"), to computer-training-by-e-mail courses in India ("Where excellence is not an act but a habit"). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click...