Word: decentering
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Eliot led the pack in recycling, took the bronze in waste reduction, but finished next-to-last in power reduction--consistently our worst event. A decent showing overall, but not nearly enough to catch the upstart squad from Dunster...
...March, after an unarmed black man named Patrick Dorismond was shot to death by New York police, Giuliani smeared Dorismond by releasing his sealed juvenile-arrest records. When he blindsided his wife last week, it was just Rudy being Rudy. He said he was being "honest, direct and decent," but others thought he was being a heel. Giuliani strategists are clinging to the idea that marital discord can't hurt you in a race against a Clinton. But Rudy is running against the wronged woman, not the philandering man. And the pain in Hanover's eyes is not likely...
...customers are treated so rudely that they offer the staff bribes to ward off insult, many industries have learned to sell ordinary service as a luxury item. Such marketing concepts as first-class travel, executive floors in hotels, and personal shoppers in stores are based on the idea that decent treatment and efficient service are not what the ordinary customer should expect...
...have conducted an informal poll: No one wants this campaign to happen. No decent person looked forward to World War II either. This promises to be one of the least elevating championship bouts ever held in the lightweight division of American politics. But I believe the campaign need not happen - at least not in the way we dread...
Another deftly entertaining American entry, the Coen brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", was ignored, as were some decent films from the festival's host country. Shinji Aoyama's "Eureka," a 3-hr, 17-min. "interior road movie" about three survivors of a terrorist attack, earned various critics' prizes for its stark beauty and psychological rigor, but the Japanese film was shut out as well in the main contest. And the strongest entry of the entire Festival, Ang Lee's thrilling action fantasy "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," was mysteriously shown out of competition, and thus ineligible for the jury...