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...important, since they only add up to about two dozen per year, but the numbers are less important than the ethos. It’s hard not to see the metonymy in the laxity of the French approach to its own prison security. A country that lacks the ability??or the motivation—to control rogues within its own prisons can hardly be counted on to deal with much more dangerous rogues outside of its own borders. This isn’t to say that the French need to adopt Taliban-style punishment, but they need...
...think it’s obvious from what he’s accomplished that Carl couldn’t have handled it better,” Murphy says. “Carl has the ability??and this is the case with anyone who is successful in anything—to focus. He narrows his scope of vision, and doesn’t let the peripheral things that are going on occupy his mind at critical times...
...required; or, I am intelligent enough, but in my “foolishness” as I labor over a keyboard, I temporarily don’t have the ability to understand what this book was all about. Otherwise, it could be a lack of “cognitive ability?? or a dearth of “rationality”—or maybe it is an overwhelming barrage of excessive jargon that prevents me from understanding exactly what the authors mean...
...film, then, is chiefly about Weber’s vision; nothing else matters quite as much, because nothing else is so definable, or real. It is Weber’s blessing to have the ability??through power, influence, talent, skill—to create and capture a world that meets his fantasies. It is his curse, in a way, to recognize the limits of that world. To be sure, it is beautiful, refined, and spectacular…but it is also utterly unachievable, utterly false...