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Most cases of police perjury are not related to corruption or self-protection. Police officers usually just want to convict the guilty. A friend of mine who has retired from the force refers to this as "tightening up a case," and it has its own compelling logic. A cop who has patrolled an area for a while has seen and heard enough to recognize the local bad actor. Why on earth wait to catch him in the act? Hassle him, let him know you're watching, stop him on sight and frisk him, and when you inevitably find dope or a gun in his clothing, testify that you saw a telltale bulge or a glassine envelope peeking from his pocket.
1. According to the author, most police officers who commit perjury do so because A) they can make more money if competing drug dealers are in jail; B) they believe a policeman’s job is to serve justice, and they want to do a better job.
2. The “tightening up” of a case described above involves framing someone. Y/N.
3. The author believes that policemen should commit perjury when it helps send guilty people to jail. Y/N.
I once represented one of two men who had been convicted of a celebrated murder they didn't commit. Eventually, my client and the other man were freed, and four police officers and three prosecutors were indicted on charges of concocting the case. (The officers and prosecutors were later acquitted.) When those indictments came down, another police officer from the area surprised me with his selective indignation over what the officers were alleged to have done: Framing someone like my client for burglary, he said, would be one thing, since the man was reputed to be a thief; framing him for murder, however, would be going too far.
4. The author is telling a story about a case in which he was A) the prosecutor; B) the defense attorney.
5. In the case, two men were framed for murder. T/F.
6. The police officer who commented on the case believed it was wrong to frame the defendants for murder. T/F.
7. The police officer who commented on the case believed it is always wrong to frame people. T/F.
8. The police officer believes murderers should be convicted and jailed. T/F.
First Rodney King, then O. J. Simpson, now this. You don't need a degree in criminal science to know that something is wrong in Los Angeles. Yet those of us in other places should not be too smug. Defense lawyers and even some prosecutors in most big cities will say that police officers frequently lie under oath.
9. According to the author, the problems with the police that his article describes happen only in Los Angeles, not in other American cities. Y/N.
The Giuliani administration violated Federal law when it turned away women who said they were being sexually harassed while working for their public assistance benefits, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled in a decision made public on Thursday.
10. U.S. federal law says that employers have to try to stop sexual harassment in the workplace, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decided that New York City broke this law. T/F.
"The city does not condone sexual harassment of any kind," Lorna Goodman, a senior lawyer in the city Corporation Counsel's office, said yesterday. "If the civil rights laws do not cover these types of workers because they are not legally employees of the city, that does not mean that they have no redress." She said the women could bring private lawsuits against the individuals they say harassed them, or even bring criminal charges of assault in cases where they say male supervisors groped them.
11. Goodman is a lawyer for New York City. T/F.
12. Goodman says that A) the city is wrong for ignoring sexual harassment complaints; B) the women cannot use the legal system to solve the problems they are complaining about; C) the women can sue the city, but not the individuals who harassed them; D) the law does not require the city to listen to the women’s complaints.
13. Goodman feels that the legal position of the women in the workfare program is the same as the legal position of women who are employed by the city. T/F.
14. The city’s legal argument is that A) nothing bad really happened to the women; B) maybe something bad happened, but the law does not protect them; C) maybe something bad happened, but the law does not say that the city has to help the women.
[In] Sprite's recent campaign ... two schmucks watch TV ads for a pretend soda called "Jooky," until it dawns on them that drinking Jooky isn't going to improve their sex lives anytime soon. The unspoken message: neither will Sprite.
15. The ad campaign mentioned here creates “shock” because A) it pretends to be selling “Jooky” rather than the real product, Sprite; B) it says that drinking Sprite will lead to a better sex life; C) it says that drinking Sprite won’t lead to a better sex life.
[W]e've learned not to be fazed by anything. Even as advertisers mine the most sacred parts of ourselves for distribution and resale, we sit passively by, pretending not to care and ultimately not caring.
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According to this, we undergo a change when we are exposed to
advertising. List which are true: A) before the change, we care (about how
“advertisers mine the most sacred parts of ourselves for distribution and
resale”); B) before, we don’t care; C) after the change, we care; D) after, we
don’t care; E) before the change, we resist the advertisers’ messages.
[Note:
you must list all (possibly multiple)
correct answers to get a point.]
To "break down their resistance" to the incoming messages, [Dr.] Cameron tranquilized his subjects with electroshocks, LSD, hypnosis, or sleeping pills that kept them in unconscious suspension for up to 22 hours a day as the driving messages played on.
17. Dr. Cameron is a doctor who performed illegal experiments on people in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and his work was funded (supported financially) by the Central Intelligence Agency. T/F.
Today's advertisers operate under far tighter constraints than Ewen Cameron did.
18. The above indicates — A) a similarity; or B) a difference — between advertisers and Dr. Cameron.
19. Advertisers are compared to Dr. Cameron because A) both try (or tried) to “break down resistance” to incoming messages; B) both get funding from the Central Intelligence Agency; C) both view (or viewed) money as the most important objective.
Mr. Rhineheart: You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe that you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously you are mistaken. This company is one of the top software companies in the world because every single employee understands that they are part of a whole. Thus if an employee has a problem, the company has a problem. The time has come to make a choice, Mr. Anderson. Either you choose to be at your desk on time from this day forward or you choose to find yourself another job. Do I make myself clear?
20. When Mr. Rhineheart says that Neo feels the rules do not apply to him, he is suggesting that A) if Neo is confident enough, he can jump from one building to another, and bullets cannot harm him; B) the company does not really exist, it is an illusion; C) Neo believes it is OK for him to come to work late.
Agent Smith: As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company, you have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Neo and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.
21. Which life, according to Agent Smith, is better for Neo? A) program writer; B) hacker.
(Car)
Trinity: Get in.
Neo: What the hell is this?
Trinity: It's necessary, Neo. For our protection.
Neo: From what.
Trinity: From you. Take off your shirt.
Neo: What?
Switch: Stop the car. Listen to me, Copper-top. We don't have time for twenty questions. Right now there's only one rule, our way or the highway.
22. Given this choice — “Our way or the highway” — which does Neo choose? A) “Our way”, or B) “the highway”?
Morpheus: Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
23. This passage suggests that for people who believe in fate, A) it is possible to change the future if they try hard enough; B) the future cannot be changed.
Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around. What do you see. Business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.
24. What Morpheus is explaining about the “business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters” is that A) they seem to be humans, but they are really machines and they are therefore enemies; B) they are humans, but they are still the enemy because they support the system Morpheus and Neo are fighting; C) they are an illusion and do not really exist, but the illusion is dangerous.
25. Some American viewers of The Matrix believe that U.S. democracy is an illusion and that American society is controlled by a small number of wealthy and powerful people. The above passage would suggest to these people that “business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters” ... A) are really the force controlling society; B) do not believe in democracy and do not want it; C) do believe in democracy but are still its enemies.
Neo: What are you trying to tell me, that I can dodge bullets?
Morpheus: No Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
26. Neo won’t have to dodge bullets (in the Matrix) because A) after men win the war against the machines, the Matrix will no longer exist; B) no one will want to kill Neo when they understand he is The One; C) bullets will not hurt him.
Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.
27. People who believe that “Ignorance is bliss” always try to understand the truth. T/F.
Agent Smith: Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world. Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization.
28. What Agent Smith means when he says billions of people are “oblivious” is that A) the billions of people don’t really exist, they are only an illusion; B) the billions do exist, but they don’t know their world is an illusion; C) the billions are in fact only a few million living about 200 years in the future; D) only the people on Morpheus’s ship really exist.
29. “Entire crops were lost” with which version of the matrix, A) the first; or, B) the second?
30. Which version of the matrix is more successful for the machines, A) the first; or, B) the second?
31. This is an allusion to the biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The similarity is that A) in both stories, man seems unable to live happily in a world without problems; B) both stories involve an illusion about the real world; C) in one story, God is good, while in the other, the controlling force is evil; D) in both stories, the controlling force is angry with men.