WASHINGTON, Oct.

U.S.

LEADING ARTICLE Awards should always be taken with a pinch of salt, as any aficionado of the critics' favourite TV show The Wire will tell you.

By Paul Whitelaw ALTHOUGH terrestrial television ratings might be down across the board, people are actually watching more television than ever. It's just that they happen to be watching it in their own time, when and where they want, in a manner that was unimaginable even ten years ago.

By Brendan Kearney Seventeen plaintiffs in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Friday claim they were the victims of a special plainclothes unit of the Baltimore Police Department that repeatedly made arrests without good cause, executed illegal searches and seizures of the detainees' homes and filed charges that did not result in convictions.