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...that, in a nutshell, may explain the curious lack of joy last Thursday evening in the Palau Sant Jordi. The women's all-around should have been an energizing high for rapt spectators. The field of competitors was so deep with talent that on any given day, the gold medal could have hung deservedly on any one of eight necks from four countries. There was enough grace to satisfy balletomanes and enough difficulty to suggest that the laws of gravity ought to be rewritten. Yet there was little of the heartwarming drama that in Olympics past enabled audiences to lose...
...them," the district attorney said last week. His frustration is understandable: Zayed, now the owner of the tattered remains of B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi's erstwhile $20 billion banking empire, has placed 18 of the bank's top officials -- all of them potential witnesses who could help explain the workings of the criminal operations -- under house arrest in Abu Dhabi while he sits on most of the bank's records...
...rise of two or more dissimilar types of HIV could explain why AIDS did not explode among heterosexuals in the U.S. and Europe, yet spread rapidly among men and women in Africa and parts of Asia. HIV has still not evolved in the industrialized world into a form that is easily transmitted by heterosexual activity. But it probably will, given the virus' proven ability to mutate. "Over time, in the U.S., more and more strains will adapt to become more efficient at heterosexual transmission," Essex says. "So far, there haven't been a critical number of people infected heterosexually...
From the Roman walls built 20 centuries ago to the weird and wonderful creations of Gaudi, Hughes spends much of the book recounting the history in order to explain the architecture--examining the roots in order to look more closely at the tree, as he might put it. Much of the most penetrating commentary--as well as some of the funniest apercus--is in the second half of the book...
Ironically, neither left nor right finds his broader failures hard to explain. The right constantly cites his acquiescence to a tax hike as the reason for his and the economy's collapse...