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This semester I’ve been taking a class discussing one of the best television shows of all time — HBO’s The Wire . Although The Wire shines in nearly every dramatic, cinematic and thematic category, one of its best qualities is its ability to show the pervasiveness of bureaucratic nonsense.

A former District of Columbia police commander whose division provided a police escort to actor Charlie Sheen last April has given notice that he intends to file a whistleblower lawsuit against the city, saying he was demoted because he testified to the D.C. Council that such escorts for celebrities were commonplace.

A Free Syrian Army fighter stands guard in Idlib, Syria, on Monday. Several cities are openly rebelling against President Bashar Assad, who is accused of killing more than 5,000 citizens in an attempt to hang on to power.