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...Reflecting the career track of every police officer, Moskos’ tale begins at the Police Academy. The reader quickly discovers the dysfunctional nature of police work, piles of red tape, overly hierarchical and often contradictory management, and a culture that values loyalty, silence, and self-preservation over effective detective work and transparency—what Moskos calls the “Blue Wall.” With such absurdities, we begin to see how poorly the academy prepares its cadets to combat Baltimore’s violent drug markets...
...with helping him develop his style. “I think the great thing about Harvard is you’ve got a broad range of people doing art,” he says. “From co-op people to New England preppy people; people are not self conscious.”The artistic students are not the only students who provide Powers with motivation, “People that just work a lot inspire me. If they’re in the lab nine hours a day, I kind of feel bad about not being...
...Music is a process of self-realization,” he says. “That it is able to entertain, touch, or move other people is an added benefit...
...when she first arrived at Harvard.“When I first entered Harvard I was confused because I found different selves yearning to do more,” she says. “I took an Ec class and found the approach was intuitive. I loved my analytical self. There was the musical self too. And I enjoy poetry that brings out my creative self.”“I’ve spent four years at Harvard trying to reconcile all my different selves and trying to realize that these could co-exist...
...hear how the band has matured since trip-hop’s heyday. While that music ultimately strove to bring a sort of hypnotic order to a combination of sampled and original material, here the band seems to revel in imperfection. The best example of this kind of self-conscious disruption is the first track, “Silence,” where a bizarre Portuguese radio monologue gives way to a primal drum line. Its time signature is only complicated by intermittent vocals, bass, and strings, sliding in and out of the song in a frustrating but fascinating pattern...