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...public accountability, argues reporter Leonard Levitt in his new book, NYPD Confidential. A former TIME reporter, Levitt wrote a New York Newsday column about the department for 11 years, once so angering police commissioner Ray Kelly that Kelly traveled to the newspaper's Long Island headquarters to complain in person to Levitt's editors. Levitt spoke with TIME about the department's need for reform, the "cloak of Sept. 11" and the flawed leadership at One Police Plaza. (Read "Were the NYPD Acquittals Inevitable...
...Frank Serpico, the corruption-fighting officer portrayed by Al Pacino in the 1973 movie, is the only pure whistle-blower you've seen. In my experience he was the only person who did this out of genuinely altruistic motives. (Read TIME's 1971 article about Serpico...
...name is actually yours. How many of these characters are really you? When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels. Of course one could say it's a form of egocentrism, but the way I tell stories is generally from the first-person point of view...
...knocked out of line. Would you ever box again? I would like to box again. It's very thrilling. I'm not the sort to jump out of a plane or skydive, but in boxing, you're really putting yourself on the edge, especially for a safe, middle-class person like myself. I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage. Everything I do is very frivolous, of course - and very clownish...
Overnight stays at the Pic du Midi, with dinner and breakfast, are priced at around $280 per person, or roughly $420 per couple. See www.picdumidi.com for more...