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The Eggplant   Search The Eggplant in the collection   Streets For America by Dave Eggers CINDY KAHN, 25, FOUNDER, STREETS FOR AMERICA Streets for America, an idea born from Kahn's senior thesis at Harvard, is now a multibillion dollar nonprofit corporation. Placing recent college grads on the streets of America's most dangerous cities, the program's purpose is to reinvigorate the country's police force with fresh faces, open minds, and good breeding. "All the regular cops seemed to be so stupid and ugly," says Kahn. "It was time to bring some class to law enforcement. You can bet hardened criminals will sit up and take notice if the person who's cuffing them is well-dressed and, say, has a master's from Yale." from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, p. 248 — Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 2013--09 INDEX OF THE EGGPLANT

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