Both "police" and "the police" are correct and make sense. I suppose "the police" doesn't sound very professional from a journalistic perspective. In most cases I think that newspapers will remove unnecessary articles such as "the" for the sake

That's shocking to me too. If you said "Quite Good" in america it would indeed mean "very good."

well, have you heard the term "cutting edge"? I would think that "bleeding edge" is derived from "cutting edge", the idea being that you are getting something just as it's being produced. dictionary.com says : The position of greatest

I wish society worked like that, but as we are now, I don't think it just really works out very well. We have too many strange conflicting emotions that have germinated from a converivate society. The world would need to change before we could

let me make a reference to something that I heard from my karate instructor: When you attend or "show up" to a Karate tournament you are already a winner, even if you don't literally get a trophy. This is because most people don't even bother