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...Lucy Fisher(Laughter) Seen only in the entertainment districts of major cities....
...Janan Ganesh Chief US political commentator For a gay kid with a speech impediment in small-town New England, cities promised a liberating anonymity....
...Police sirens went off at all times. A Jehovah’s Witness rang the bell and gave me a leaflet....
...Yogananda Pittman, acting chief of the US Capitol police, said shortly after Joe Biden’s inauguration that “vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure must be made to include permanent fencing...
...Hong Kong police have arrested 53 pro-democracy politicians in one of the biggest purges of the city’s opposition since Beijing imposed a tough new national security law on the city last year....
...Arundhati Roy’s latest novel is ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ Copyright © Arundhati Roy 2020 Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...In September, Roy Kwong, a lawmaker who has acted as a mediator between the police and demonstrators during the protests, was beaten up....
...Hardcore pro-democracy protesters left a trail of havoc and destruction across Hong Kong on Sunday, marching in defiance of a police ban and targeting government buildings and subway stations with vandalism...
...At least one person was shot by police, another was set on fire, a 70-year-old man died after he was hit in the head by a flying brick and the police warned the city was on “the brink of total collapse”....
...Mr Giuliani brought along a cast of loyalists from City Hall, including former city lawyer Michael Hess, police commissioner Bernard Kerik and aide Anthony Carbonetti, among others....
...population, with police putting the number at 338,000....
...Louise Mitchell, chief executive of the trust, announced that when the hall reopens in 2020 after a refit, it will be with a new name....
...It is not only the number of scandals that has angered voters, but the sense of a lack of accountability that is at odds with the assertion by Aurelio Nuño, the PRI’s election campaign chief, that there...
...Roy Price, the head of Amazon Studios, resigned earlier this month after a producer publicly accused him of making lewd comments in 2015....
...The chief minister finally responded by reining in the police, insisting that couples out by mutual consent were not to be harassed. But my friend remains cynical. This is old-school moral policing....
...(WaPo) India jails beggars A city in India is locking up beggars ahead of a visit by Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the US president....
...Roy Wilsher, chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council, said the practice of recladding older buildings “certainly needs to be reconsidered”....
...“If the state can’t identify another owner — it just takes the property,” says Zoltan Ferenc Ballai, chief financial officer of Romania’s Reformed Church, from his base in the elegant university city of...
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...Most of the happenings were, in any case, quickly curtailed by the police....
...The “broken windows” theory was taken up by police chiefs in several large US cities, who found that stopping small offences sharply reduced the incidence of large ones. This view has its critics....
...Hedi Annabi, the UN mission chief in Haiti, who had been holding a meeting with a Chinese police delegation at the headquarters, was among those missing, as were his deputy, Luiz Carlos da Costa, and the...
...The year is 2003 and Damon’s chief warrant officer Roy Miller naively believes he can still find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There’s one Bourne every minute....
...One of Pang’s first bosses, the chief executive of a venture capital firm, has also accused him of stealing $3m from an investors’ escrow account using false signatures. Pang has denied this....
...It wasn’t very well planned; there was no planning of the murder of the chief executive,” says Surendra Kumar Verma, the local police chief....
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