Opinion: Sunday’s Current: Hollywood Hacks, Real Cops, French Racists

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Wesley Strick: From Hollywood Hack to Novelist Nobody
It’s a weird trip trying to be a screenwriter and an author.

Jonathan Freedland: The Power of the Pen Name
Why do writers park their egos at the door?

Andres Martinez: Cuba, Where Libre Is in Limbo
The country is waiting for Castro to die. Then what?

Dave Zirin: Beisbol Has Been Very, Very Good to Us
A boycott by Pedro Martinez, Albert Pujols, and other Latino stars would cripple Major League Baseball.

Gregory Rodriguez: It’s not Racism, It’s Frenchism
How France’s egalitarian idea died.

Jack Dunphy: LAPD Needs Strong Leaders, not Wimpy Computers
Real cops want a department with guts, not a database.

David Wise: Read the News, Go to Jail
Most Americans possess classified information, whether they know it or not.

William Easterly: Why Foreign Aid Fails
Nebbish bureaucrats, corrupt dictators, and the fallacy of ‘ending’ poverty.