Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failure cannot be altogether blamed on its Newbury Street address, however. Directly across the street, Victor Hugo Books proclaims, "Most of our rights have already been traded away by those who prefer the safety of government control to the anarchy of individual freedom. Very few people understand the Faustian bargain they have made. This shop is dedicated to those who have rejected the bargain. It is open to those who might reconsider." "Anarchy"? "Faustian bargain"? That's pure bohemia. Packed 12-foot bookshelves tower above Beringer and Johnnie Walker boxes overflowing with books. Rolling metal ladders facilitate browsing. Old black...
Harvard's traditional reputation--and reality--as a grooming school for the international ruling elite makes the school an excellent fit for squash junkies, perhaps on par with Princeton, but better academically. The bargain is mutual: squash players boost Harvard's team, and the team provides a welcome outlet for kids who were nursed on slow-bouncing, soft, black rubber balls. Harvard's new reputation--and reality--as a meritocratic training ground for new generations of symbolic analysts has added a welcome twist to the squash world. Those students from public high schools, who might have had a decent tennis...
...with those words, Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, last week saved himself from the threat of execution. In a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, he accepted a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of appeal or release. Denied his belated request to defend himself in court, he abandoned his plan to argue that his 18-year killing spree--aimed mainly at those he considered technocrats, like computer scientists and business executives--was necessary to save an environment-despoiling America from itself. But he also gave up what some Justice Department officials and his victims feared was a chance that...
...before us. He's been accused of that before and survived. People seemed not to believe his denials in 1992 about Gennifer Flowers--in fact, according to leaks from his recent deposition, the President seems not to have believed them himself--but the public apparently forgave him. An implicit bargain was struck, and it's hard to imagine a national convulsion erupting from disclosures that, say, he had stashed away somewhere in the Old Executive Office Building a cabaret singer roughly...
...DAVID KACZYNSKI Ted, thanks to a plea bargain, gets to live. And David doesn't have to live with the guilt...