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...Despite the depressing nature of his subject, Moskos manages to draw a colorful portrait of Baltimore, even adding dashes of dark humor that endow the desperate inner city with humanity. On a disturbance call, Moskos must ascertain whether the relationship of a man and a woman is sexual and therefore legally “domestic,” a task requiring sensitivity to Baltimore slang...
...Hood” is a quick and easy read that is destined to change many minds about America’s inner-city drug trade. The book vividly depicts the unique narratives of its subjects while making clear that they are all part of the same greater socioeconomic tragedy: junkies who live to find their next fix; drug dealers who kill and destroy lives because they have no other options; police who won’t or can’t make a positive difference for those they serve. In the face of this failure, Moskos concludes, passionately, with...
...Capone,” each one differentiating his product as if he were selling candy bars. Moskos explains the sophistication of a street-level drug deal—from lookouts and moneymen to slingers and hired muscle—in a way that inspires some awe for such inner-city entrepreneurship. These stories reveal the conditions of Baltimore in a way that is no less useful than methodological research—if you choose to believe what the author claims to have lived through...
...help of mentors Robert Scanlon and Deborah Foster, Kargman has crafted Theater Studies, which uses the lens of theater to study English and psychology—a combination Kargman calls “pre-med for acting.”“The ideas of consciousness and the inner monologue and the human psyche, those are all so important to develop a full, complex character,” Kargman says.Kargman has also applied her summer experiences in theater to dramatic life at Harvard. The summer after her freshman year, Kargman worked with the Atlantic Theater Company in New York...
...Smith, who is concerned about Wright's effect on the May 6 Indiana primary, says he'd hoped Wright would "bear it, and wait," before publicly venting his frustration. But, says Smith, "for anybody who's built a church or institution to try to help the ghettos of the inner cities of America and then have that legacy potentially lost, it's got to be painful...