> Borremans was a tall, slender man with searching blue eyes and a bald head who cycled 40 miles to and from work every day. He was the son of a cheese vendor.

> Borremans was a tall, slender man with searching blue eyes and a bald head who cycled 40 miles to and from work every day. He was the son of a cheese vendor. Borremans joined the police force at 19 and worked for years in a carjacking unit. Once, he broke up a criminal network trafficking luxury cars between the Belgian port city of Antwerp and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Does that paragraph strike anyone else as strange being in a top tier newspaper like The Washington Post? It reads like a grade school essay where the student is trying to stuff a bunch of miscellaneous facts into a paragraph rather than the polished prose you usually see in a top tier newspaper.