At the news conference, Mayor Giuliani dismissed critics who contend that the Police Department needs to reach out to minority residents; he repeated that the department was among the most restrained in the nation, a conclusion he based on declining numbers of shootings and civilian complaints.
"The fact that students with disabilities are disproportionately disciplined and restrained and secluded nation-wide is a societal problem that must be addressed as a matter of civil rights," Cooper-Gould said in a statement.
Through most of its history, the narrative begins, the United States was a limited government nation, with restrained central power and an independent citizenry.
The emotional but restrained mood captured the melancholia of a nation torn between an invented tradition of classical glory and a traumatic history of state repression, corruption and dynastic politics that brought the country to the edge of disaster.
The first of these major measures declared illegal all combinations that restrained trade between states or with foreign nations.
Mr. Bourguiba's relatively restrained attitude did not come naturally in Tunisia, a nation the size of Louisiana on the Mediterranean coast between Algeria and Libya.
GAZETTE: Is there a danger that if the U.S. shifts to a more restrained foreign policy, the vacuum would be filled by nations that do not support liberal values?
What follows is an admirably restrained and fair-minded portrait of a town, county and nation under psychological siege in an ideological war.
Garbus paints a convincing portrait of this encounter as the distilled quintessence of the cold war: icy, restrained, suspicious, a mental contest between aliens beamed live into the nation's homes from another planet.
