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Second, we are concerned about what forms this recruiting will take. We hope that the CPD defines its program carefully, insuring that it doesn't let it slip from an attempt to recruit gays to a program which weighs sexual orientation early in the process. In other words, we do not care whether or not an officer is openly gay as long as he or she is doing the job well. While it is important that "our police department reflect [the] community," it is equally important that our police department treat all officers equitably, regardless of their sexual orientation...
...addition, the immature and foolish romantic escapades of the twenty-something protagonists are well-contrasted with the twins' constantly bickering parents who attempt to rekindle a marriage that long ago degenerated into mutual abhorrence...
...lonely Frank cannot tolerate the cruelty of the Herod-like Doyle. His inevitable act of violence is, at least in part, a religious mercy mission. Other reasons are less convincing: Does a story arc this simple need back-story effluvia like buried infants, failed bar bands, an attempt by John Ritter (yes, the John Ritter) to play a plausible gay character...
...weeks ago I first heard of the Bee, Harvard's only Final Club for women, and I've been fascinated by the idea of it ever since: Is it a backlash against the male-controlled elite Harvard social scene? An attempt to buy into the Old Boys Network...
Ellis Cose's Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World (HarperCollins; 260 pages; $24) is an attempt to break out of what the author calls "the well-worn rut into which racial reflections and conversations commonly fall." A pit of conceptual quicksand would be more like...