And how have his former fellow officers responded to the book? "I've received a couple dozen reviews via e-mail from former NYPD co-workers as well as from cops I've never met. Mostly, they've said the book perfectly mirrors their own experiences, and they're glad because they want the general public to know what they have to put up with. It's a point of pride among cops that they have a difficult and thankless job. One cop even said he'd accidentally locked himself inside his patrol car."
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Jody Hill's ambiguous and unsettling film is a comedy about law enforcement in much the same way that Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy is a comedy about comedy.
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Two weeks in a row your paper trumpeted the fact that Rush Limbaugh is at the top of your “Unsexiest Men” list.
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I don’t like the way you’re looking at me.
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It's Jazz Week time again — that time when the Boston jazz community looks to expand its minority-appeal music to a larger public.
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