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As an Irvington resident and a parent of school-age children I must congratulate both Ms. Allan at the middle school and Dr. Mosenthal at the high school for having the courage to go against popular trends in enforcing a code of decency.

We would still be holding everyone accountable, but children would be able to sleep at night during March and April, and teachers wouldn't feel it necessary to violate a basic code of decency.

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The internet is an uncontrolled space with material upon it which I anticipate the Sun would not wish to publish because it is pornographic, racist or offends one of the many other codes of decency to which most people aspire.

Such are the codes of decency between the heirs of the Night's Watch: Bros before crows.

SM: I would share with him the fact that Robin Hood lives by the code of practical decency, and doing the right thing.

By sharing the video, Brown said he wants to show both the woman and others that "regardless of how you feel about someone, there is a code of human decency to follow". .

In real life there seems to be an underlying code of morality and decency he strives to obey — sometimes to contradictory and comic effect — and he acknowledges he is drawn to similar roles in his work.

"He doesn't go into these communities himself and often criticizes those who do," said Elijah Anderson, Charles and William Day distinguished professor of social sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of "Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City" (Norton, 1999), one of the ethnographies Mr. Wacquant has attacked.

His other publications include: Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community, which earned the Robert E. Park Award for the best published book on Community and Urban Sociology from the American Sociological Association; and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner.

And on every emotional level I know, "unfathomable" seems a fitting descriptor of the cold-blooded mass murder of innocent children and teachers in an elementary school; it goes against the most basic core values and code of social order and decency we have.

On the other hand, as official codes of censorship fell and internalized ones of decency slackened, Fuller's choreographed and abstracted violence lost currency beside the hyper-realistic blood being spilled in the films of Peckinpah, Penn, and Scorsese.

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