THE MAYOR AND THE WIRE
How's this for a mayor who gets it? Mayor Nutter is such a fan of HBO's "The Wire" that he's hosting a screening tonight; and he also wrote a piece for today's paper. I haven't seen the show myself but it's been highly recommended to me, mostly for the realism of flawed institutions and flawed people. Here's hoping that in the real world, however we flawed we are and however flawed the entities we're a part of, that we'll see less violence and less corruption, more peace and more justice.
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