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HUPD has a higher proportion of female officers than most police departments—roughly a dozen of the department’s 60-odd officers are female...
...trip through groovy electronics highlighted by Albarn’s urgent, woozy falsetto. Nakamura says they will be working on “another record sometime next year” if not earlier, depending on how the various band members can continue to balance their other projects from the odd situation of having a side project get larger than anything most of them had ever done before. Certainly there will be more lunacy and oddball vocals. Gorillaz get a lot of criticism for being ostentatiously and deliberately genre-blending, poppy and the first “virtual band...
...enormous and we had wonderful times as children exploring the steam tunnels under the University and sneaking up into the tower at night.” But for Heimert, her parents’ responsibilities as Masters often disrupted the nuclear family. “It certainly made for an odd family life,” she says. “My parents felt—rightly—that it was their responsibility to eat in the dining hall on weeknights with students and members of the Senior Common Room.” Heimert says the “endless...
...taught us already. Benito Mussolini seemed like a worthy member of the first Axis of Evil, until the country got a close look at him in the newsreels, comically soaking up the ovation of his people with his fists on his hips and his chin thrust out and that odd little party hat perched on his head. It was only then that we started to ask, Is this guy kidding or what? Nikita Kruschev was similarly supposed to scare the daylights out of us, and he did for a while. Then he took off his shoe, whacked...
...task was less to redefine the business than to get back to it. Over the years the company had simply stopped producing hits, relying for sales revenue on the albums of enka queen Hibari Misora?who died in 1989. Nippon Columbia owned Denon, an audio-equipment maker, and odd assets such as real estate and golf memberships. The staff was bloated, the headquarters stuffy, and the company had not turned a profit in 10 years...