"I... Would lie if I told you I've never had to compromise my conscience. But the good he does for the city an

"I... Would lie if I told you I've never had to compromise my conscience. But the good he does for the city and my students is incomparably greater than the harm. Irovetti is no role model, but he created the Academy — and in merely doing that he's atoned for a great many of his wrongdoings. And I, as head of the Academy, have a chance to further diminish the evil he does."