Word: walls
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When the blue wall of silence broke, it was all over for New York City police officer Justin Volpe. The witnesses for the prosecution had badges, and they had stories to tell: Volpe leading Haitian immigrant Abner Louima into a bathroom, Volpe boasting about having sodomized Louima with a stick, Volpe brandishing said stick, Volpe returning bloodstained gloves to a fellow officer in the NYPD. And so Volpe's lawyer, local star Marvin Kornberg, never even presented a defense, and the disgraced cop is pleading guilty to all charges. He faces 25 years to life -- and will probably get more...
...where Volpe, the "Devil in a Blue Suit" of demonstrators' placards, may reenter the negotiations. "We may now hear from Volpe as to what Schwarz did or didn't do during the incident," says Cohen. "That's the only thing he has to offer prosecutors." Once the blue wall falls, anyone can get crushed under...
...also self-aware, conscious of things he can do better, and works at it." Summers, who has made great strides in improving his people skills, has a reputation for brilliance, if not tact. "Larry Summers is to humility what Madonna is to chastity," wrote Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal. In diplomatic circles, his untucked shirts, mismatched socks and bluntness have seemed odd to some. But there is no doubt that he can deliver the conceptual goods...
Rocket scientists and Wall Street analysts characterized the catastrophes as a spectacular run of bad luck. But the losses--the launch vehicles and the satellites they were carrying cost at least $3.5 billion--come at a time when the industry is simultaneously consolidating, introducing new technology and trying to boost the number of annual launches to meet rising demand. That's not a prescription for smooth sailing. "It could be a string of bad luck," says Pierre Chao, an analyst for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. "Or they are doing so many launches that something slipped...
...fast: any explicit instruction in the Ten Commandments would alarm guardians of the church-state wall. And in any case, they would have to be translated into modern educationese: Thou shalt model caring behaviors in interactive relationships with thy peer group. In the public schools, where any kind of commandment might be deemed unduly judgmental, character ed revolves around pillars or building blocks of character--universally accepted values bleached of any sectarian contamination. And they are transmitted by the familiar methods beloved of today's pedagogues: posters and banners, role playing and sharing, multi-culti storytelling and words...