Word: badness
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...heel, entirely; Hamm plays him as charming, philosophical, in some ways rigidly honorable. But he has a deep belief, rooted in his beginnings as an unwanted child, that life is unfair, truth is relative, identity is malleable, and people are, ultimately, alone. This makes him a bad husband - and an excellent adman. When his firm does a public-image campaign for the company about to raze New York City landmark Penn Station, he lays out a pitch that could be his personal creed. "If you don't like what is being said, change the conversation," he advises. What distinguishes America...
...tout a contest for the best food photography, it showcased a fried-egg-and-bacon burger on a bun made of two doughnuts (above). A recurring segment called "WTFood??!" featured a British supermarket that was selling a Wimbledon special--sausage, strawberries, crème fraîche and mint--that sounded bad even for British food...
...people who would be really good fighter pilots. Rarities. Some of Strayer's other findings show that most drivers tend to stare straight ahead while using a cell phone and are less influenced by peripheral vision. In other words, "cell phones," he says, "make you blind to your own bad driving...
...draconian measures. Now that it has uncovered the NHTSA research, it is filing a petition calling for all new cars to have a device installed that allows only emergency calls. "We do not see how [NHTSA] can turn down a problem that's rapidly turning out to be as bad as drunk driving," says Clarence Ditlow, CAS's executive director. "We're asking that technology be installed in cars to disable their cell phones whenever you shift out of park...
...York City headquarters, his bond traders were downstairs shorting shares of mortgage brokers. Lawrence G. McDonald was one of those traders, and in his rendering of Lehman's demise--nimbly told with novelist Patrick Robinson--the bond traders are the smart guys, the real estate dealmakers are the bad guys, and the folks in charge are the idiots. What McDonald fails to note--even while illustrating it with an arrogant panache--is that Wall Street's egotism was hardly confined to Lehman's executive suite. This time it was mortgages; next time it will be something else...