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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is fertile territory for exploration and no recent effort in any medium is more ambitious than Prince of the City, which tells the story of a detective in a free-wheeling narcotics unit who decides to go undercover to battle against police corruption. From the day Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) decides to turn on his fellow officers and surreptitiously "wear a wire" (tape recorder), Prince takes a relentlessly compelling journey through the value system of the entire profession. But there is a fatal flaw that prevents the movie from capturing the meaning of Ciello's "turning." The character even...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Pretender to the Throne | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...been posted in some entryways, night-time escort services have been extended, more blue-light emergency telephones have been installed on campus buildings, students have received ID cards with photographs, the Harvard Police station has been moved closer to the Radcliffe Quad, University police have created a sensitive crime unit with two female officers, and students and Faculty members have formed committees on security...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Securing the Ivory lower | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...difficult to follow, particularly the recommendation to women not to wash after being raped. In addition, Orr says she is "worried" about the other booklet, "RAPE," which was co-authored by social workers at the University Health Services (UHS) and female members of the Police Department's sensitive crime unit. "It isn't deliberate, but there is [in "RAPE"] a lot of blaming the victim and emphasis on feeling guilty after a rape, not on the fact that rape just exists and we should deal with it the best we can," she says. Overall, Orr believes, the two new booklets...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Securing the Ivory lower | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...transport equipment too large to be carried by airplane or truck from Anchorage, more than 600 miles to the south. In 1975, when the entire fleet was trapped in the ice, the scheduled opening of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline was threatened. This year Atlantic Richfield's Arco unit is relying on the convoy to deliver machinery needed to begin drilling on the Kuparuk oilfield, 40 miles west of Prudhoe Bay. If it does not arrive safely, the lower 48 states will lose | the 80,000 bbl. of oil per day that the field I should yield from early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Alaska: A Race Through the Arctic Ice | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Back intact is an impressively stingy defensive unit, paced by goaltenders Ben Erulkar and Peter Walsh, who split the net chores about evenly last year, with about equal effectiveness...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: The Gang's All Back | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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