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...Perhaps the biggest change in police training came in the 1970s, when police departments across the country formed specialized units such as SWAT teams. The idea was to sit back and wait until the experts arrived at the scene. But after the Columbine High School massacre, many police departments rethought their approach and reverted to the old way of letting the officer on the scene take control...
...power over restraint in their songs. That’s led to a disparate discography, consisting of eight full-length discs in seven years. As soon as an album’s done, a new batch of songs suddenly crops up, sui generis. Wandering souls can’t sit still, and so the band never encounters their own boundaries because such boundaries don’t exist. But “Strawberry Jam” may be the only Animal Collective album fully possessed by a need to exist completely in the present. The album’s sessions...
...skill and his star status draw, as well as by the lack of character development elsewhere. The delicate poignancy of the film has a familiarity that most audience members will appreciate; the scattered characters and narration, unfortunately, have a distancing effect that makes it harder to sit through cloying moments. Still, Radcliffe fans and viewers willing to indulge in youthful awe will appreciate this sentimental venture. —Staff writer Erin F. Riley can be reached at eriley@fas.harvard.edu...
...experience of book buying in spite of the convenience of Amazon.com or large chains. This reliance on consumer loyalty creates a unique relationship between small bookstores and their patrons. Most booksellers allow their shoppers liberties that other industries don’t. Few grocery stores allow you to sit for hours at a time in their store consuming their products without paying anything, but that should be the norm in a bookstore. A pivotal part of the experience is the fact that the bookstore will allow you to sit there and read, even if you aren’t going...
Though many of the facts of the situation are still unclear, the final violence in Jena seems to stem from an incident in August 2006 in which white students placed nooses on a schoolyard tree after black students had the audacity to sit under it. The fact that neither the local prosecutor nor the federal district attorney could find statutes that such an dastardly and hate-filled act of intimidation violated points to a major problem with federal and local hate crime statutes...