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...movie follows three interwoven stories concerning a single Brooklyn police precinct situated in the most violent part of the borough, all of which come together in a violent conclusion. In a concurrent storyline, the NYPD attempts to regain the community’s trust after an officer from the precinct shoots and kills an honor student from the projects...
Experts offer many theories for the causes: that military culture is intrinsically violent and hypermasculine, that the military is slow to identify potential risks among raw young recruits, that too many commanders would rather look the other way than acknowledge a breakdown in their units, that it has simply not been made a high enough priority. "A lot of my male colleagues believe that the only thing a general needs to worry about is whether he can win a war," says Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez of the Armed Services Committee. "People are not taking this seriously. Commanding officers in the field...
...Chinese as historical proof of the difference between China's and the West's roles in the world. Though the unprecedented display of maritime power was meant to extend the Ming dynasty's reach over a network of tributary states, Zheng rarely resorted to the type of violent, coercive measures taken for centuries by European colonizers, especially in Africa. "Zheng's a nominal symbol of China's peaceful engagement with the world," says Geoffrey Wade, a historian at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore who has translated Ming records pertaining to the voyages. "With him, it's like...
Spitzer built his career on a reputation for integrity. That the reality of his conduct was more complicated - the famously violent temper, the time wasted in petty turf wars with state legislators - hardly mattered. He spent eight years as attorney general of New York and became known as a defender of the public against the corrupt impulses of Wall Street. He investigated subprime-mortgage lenders for making unscrupulous loans, went after AIG for bid rigging and charged stock analysts with deceptive practices. His nickname, the Sheriff of Wall Street, and his I'm-better-than-everyone-else persona carried...
...angry workers forced their way into a board meeting, compelling company managers to hastily promise an initial payment within days and a settling of all debts by the end of the Iranian year in mid-March - with New Year bonuses as an added sweetener. (See pictures of December's violent street demonstrations in Tehran...