Word: precinct
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Hungry Duck owner Steele recently told Russia Review magazine that he spends about $500,000 a year on his "roof," from paying off the local police precinct to buying the higher-up connections in the militia and the FSB (the main successor organization to the KGB). Since he has to spend another $500,000 a year to protect his other bar, the quieter Chesterfield's, Steele loses 10 to 20 percent of his annual profits just to the "interests...
...could accuse Yusef Komunyakaa, 50, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a tenured professor at Princeton, of writing self-indulgent, feel-good verse, and he shows why in Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan University; 128 pages; $19.95). Raised in a particularly racist precinct of rural Louisiana, Komunyakaa, who is black, was drafted into the Vietnam War and assigned to write for the Southern Cross, a newspaper for infantrymen. Thirty years later, the artillery fire still echoes in his work. In "Ia Drang Valley," a slender, striking war poem both lyrical and blunt, a soldier dreams himself into...
...about a mile away. But Colbert wasn't in the land of official procedure; he was in the hands of Blondie. So, instead, he was taken to 1518 Ontario Street, a run-down three-story home and sometime crack house that served as a sort of hidden adjunct to precinct headquarters...
Underage drinking is of particular importance in Demakis' precinct, which includes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the row of MIT fraternity houses on Beacon Street. Demakis said he encourages schools to be more proactive in both educating students about the dangers of drinking and monitoring student activities...
...single dad. An odd couple--she's the daughter of aging hippies, he's the son of rich conservatives. A wacky alien. An incorruptible prosecutor. Another single dad. A precinct full of hotheaded urban cops. As the new shows suggest, the broadcast networks are not exactly venturing into unexplored territory this season; in fact, they aren't even leaving the hotel. That's neither surprising nor necessarily bad. Lots of successful shows have followed the conventions of the sitcom or the police drama. If a series about a divorced father and his wiseacre kids is truly funny, does anyone care...