Word: wallful
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...Giuliani. There would be a good chance that we would never have heard of Louima and that Volpe would still be patrolling his beat in Brooklyn. Instead Volpe, 27, pleaded guilty last week in federal court to an act of police brutality so sadistic that it cracked "the blue wall of silence...
...does Volpe's guilty plea mean that the blue wall of silence is finally tumbling down, as Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir claim? Don't bet on it. Several law-enforcement experts told TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera that they believe the code of silence remains intact. Volpe refused to name other officers who took part in the assault. And the officers who testified against him waited days and weeks to come forward--and did so then only under the pressure of a highly publicized investigation. Says New York City police lieutenant Eric Adams, co-founder of One Hundred Blacks...
...there is a deeper reason that the Louima case doesn't necessarily portend a slowdown in attempts to cover up police brutality. Call it the white wall of silence--the implicit bargain that Giuliani, like the mayors of many cities, has made with his mostly white core political supporters. They reckon that voters will tolerate heavy-handed police tactics as long as they don't have to see them; that most nonwhites, especially young males, are considered suspect, and that wholesale violations of their civil liberties are an acceptable price to pay for a drop in the crime rate. That...
...statement to TIME, Freeport argues that its stock is "significantly undervalued," in part because Wall Street has misread Indonesia's political mood. Freeport notes it will reduce debt $200 million in 1999, and has received permission to boost ore production at Grasberg from 220,000 tons a day to 300,000 tons in exchange for doubling its royalty payments to the government...
...know, I know, lots of people are putting in longer hours, and as a highly paid Wall Streeter I should just shut up and deal with it. After all, trading stocks has become the national pastime, and as in the case of its predecessor, day games just don't draw enough crowds. Night sessions will open up a huge West Coast market and add those individuals who can't day trade because their bosses won't let them. If the exchange doesn't harness this audience, competing entities certainly will...