Word: elements
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...year. About 100 murders that should have happened never did--at least not in New Orleans. "It gave us an opportunity to have a clear picture of what peace in a city is," says Warren Riley, now superintendent of the police department. "I think even our criminal element for a short period of time had a change of heart...
...N.O.P.D. after Chief Eddie Compass resigned in September, and he may be replaced, depending on the outcome of the mayoral election on May 20. So far, he has created a criminal intelligence bureau of about 100 officers to "focus on the reoccupation of the city by the criminal element," he says. For the most dangerous suspects, officers meet with judges to urge them to impose high bail. For now, the N.O.P.D. has the advantage of numbers. There are about 135 people in New Orleans for every police officer--or about half the number before Katrina...
...outcome,” Crimson coach Scott Anderson said. “There are all kinds of factors that can be considered. I know by the factors that ultimately turned out to be most important [that] we would be strong, but there’s always an element of subjectivity...
...they “make their own costumes, sewn together with appliqués from the Garment District.” “There’s a dance aspect, and there’s a small business aspect,” Laskowska says.“Sweatshop element,” Chang interjects, giggling. Pringle recalls an incident at nationals, at which dancers from New York University who had $40 per day stipends from their school, actually bought food for the Harvard dancers. “We looked hungry, I guess,” Pringle says...
...writer, a scandal: this too sounds like something we have read somewhere before. The new element, following the James Frey and JT LeRoy scandals, is the role a little-known pop-culture tastemaker played in how Viswanathan got signed, got famous and got a comeuppance...