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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...
...second for Rogers. With two outs and a 3-2 count the junior clocked a pitch deep to left, only to watch as the shot approached the fence and the ball fell into the glove of the Big Green’s Jason Blydell at the warning track. Dartmouth won the game 5-4 on that out.Harvard has been in the role of comeback victim often this season. In the last month, the Crimson has lost to Boston College, Northeastern, and Yale in walk-off fashion.COME ON BLUEHarvard had to overcome several obstacles during its massive comeback in the final...
Even with two-way connectivity, makers may still allow consumers to opt out of subscribing to the unit-tracking function, in part because that service would increase the annual fee - about $50 - that many companies already charge to transmit traffic updates and other information. What's more, it's not the average consumer who would track down a criminal to get his TomTom or Mio back. But the fact that it could be tracked at all would serve as a powerful deterrent; it would also help authorities locate and bust larger-scale crime rings, which typically hawk stolen electronics...
...measure. While University Hall’s desire to maintain a manageable faculty size in the face of administrative and programmatic changes is completely understandable, this hiring slow-down will ultimately disadvantage students who face gaping holes in their departments of choice. Harvard currently lacks sufficient tenured and tenure-track faculty to provide instruction in a number of fields—from philosophy to history to language studies. For example, the Philosophy department remains incomplete without course offerings in aesthetic philosophy or the philosophy of art. Students wishing to study these fields have no choice but to instead focus...
...That's hardly an encouraging start to negotiations, and neither is the track record. A controversial peace accord in 2006 dissolved in a spate of attacks on military forces and allowed extremists to regroup. The government contends that current negotiations are more likely to stick since they're being conducted with tribal leaders, not just with militants...