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Bailey, 37, the new sheriff of Middlesex County, the county which includes Cambridge, is on even better terms with Harvard University police (HUPD) today. In fact, over the past four weeks, he's been stopping by HUPD headquarters to officially swear in the Harvard police as deputy sheriffs...
...There's a lengthy oath about observing the Constitution and the laws of the Commonwealth. It's a formal ceremony in which everybody raises their right hand, and does, in fact, swear paragraph by paragraph," he said...
...swear it's not something we've talked about as an organization," Purdy says...
Xscape's Off the Hook, by contrast, is an album of unconnected, though highly agreeable, songs. Who Can I Run To, the CD's best number, is so immediately likable you might swear you had heard it before (and you might be right--the song was originally performed by the Jones Girls in the '70s). While Jodeci's songs are often about male sexual pursuit, Xscape shows us things from the female perspective. Several of these songs are about women who have been wronged and yet foolishly go back to their men. On the ballad Love's a Funny Thing...
...that anxiety Dole was speaking to when he accused the powers behind American movies, music and television of flooding the country with "nightmares of depravity.'' Warning that the more extreme products of pop culture threaten to undermine American kids, he called on the large media companies to swear off the hard stuff. "We must hold Hollywood and the entire entertainment industry accountable for putting profit ahead of common decency,'' Dole said, then raised the heat considerably by singling out one company, Time Warner, the media giant that includes the largest American music operation, the Warner film studio and a stable...