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...result is a smooth exhibit that veers away from resembling a living room to focus on the chairs as artistic forms in themselves and in contrast to the architects’ buildings. Though at first it is hard to understand the connection between such different structures, as the brightly colored brochure explains, the architects’ furniture work is often exemplary of their larger undertakings...
Partygoers and members agree that the distinctions between the two types of clubs make for a hugely different scene—and one that goes way beyond the contrast between a sweaty party in Eliot’s Ground Zero and a sweaty party...
...contrast between frats and clubs can also get hazy. To a first-year woman, a group of frat brothers and a yellow cooler at an open party may not seem too different from their final club brethren—even if that punch comes in a silver bowl, or an envelope...
...obvious. Lawyers for the Rigas family, which performed the remarkable feat of bankrupting a cable company, say their clients can't be guilty of a conspiracy to loot the company because they are too dimwitted: one is "not the savviest guy," another is "clueless." Martha Stewart's defense, by contrast, was in part that she is too clever to have done anything as dumb as conspiring to break the securities laws...
...secret of the fact that he used Tyco money for a yacht, kept his mistresses on the payroll and (possibly therefore) also let Tyco finance a $5 million diamond ring for his wife. How could he have criminal intent if it was all out in the open? By contrast, Scott Sullivan, former CFO of WorldCom, engaged in a more traditional form of gall in pleading guilty to $11 billion worth of accounting fraud. It was a "misguided effort to save the company," he said. Call this the Vietnam defense: it was necessary to destroy the company in order to save...