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Michelle Obama on Dec. 15 responded to President Donald Trump’s remarks following the deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife.

In a CNN interview on Dec. 16, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) said the “dam is breaking” for President Donald Trump’s hold on support within the Republican Party.

This article presents an analysis of abuses committed by the Italian police over recent decades, focusing in particular on the case of Federico Aldrovandi, a teenager from Ferrara whose treatment at the hands of the Ferrara police when he was stopped coming home from a night out on September 25, 2005 led to his death. Using the work of Robert Reiner (1985), the article will look at four dimensions of police culture, as identified by Reiner: isolation, cynicism, the policing mission, and political conservatism. The conclusion will focus on an evaluation of possible correctives, such as the creation of independent commissions or the obligation for police to display their officer number.

In her introduction to Jewish Fantasy Worldwide, Valerie Estelle Frankel notes that Belgian- Jewish editor Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967) effectively invented modern science fiction in 1926 by founding Amazing Stories and the next two decades saw many Jewish writers publishing foundational sci-fiand fantasy (ix). Anderson lists three contemporary book reviews of the novel The Princess Bride (from The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times Book Review), none of which see Jewish subtext in the story (117). Notably, The New York Times Book Review by Gerald Walker calls the abridgment device \"a kind of comedic extension of Brecht's distancing effect, alienation to provoke not an intellectual response, but an entertained response\" (14). Students of Suvin will know Brecht was a key source for his ideas on science fiction as a literature of estrangement-a literature about other worlds, hence estranged from the world we know (\"Estrangement and Cognition\" 1).

The growing abundance in complex network data models is constantly increasing the challenges for non-expert users who perform an effective exploratory search in large data collections. In such domains, users search for entities related to a topic of interest and acquire knowledge by investigating the relationships between these entities. Designers, in turn, are challenged by the need to provide tools that enable convenient search and exploration to facilitate productive performance on the task. For this purpose, we introduce HiveRel, a search system that presents search results as tiled hexagons on a map-like surface with center-out relevance ordering and allows on-demand display of relationships between search results. HiveRel’s user interface is based on theoretical principles that reflect how users acquire knowledge through relationships. For the search mechanism, we provide a set of information retrieval definitions leading to the formalization of the Maximal n-Bounded Exploration Subgraph problem and present an implementation of a greedy heuristic algorithm that provides non-optimal solutions to this problem. We develop a proof of concept version of HiveRel. We evaluate it in two user studies that compare users’ performance using HiveRel to standard web search over a range of search knowledge acquisition tasks and two different domains. The results indicate that despite the lack of familiarity with the new system, users were generally more accurate and as fast using HiveRel, and provided positive evaluations for the search experience.