Word: fined
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...generation of inky-fingered wretches who remember that it isn't a sin for journalism to entertain - indeed, that one way you can get across a point about which you feel passionately is to make people smile while they are absorbing it. If you disagreed with a Safire column, fine (I usually did); but at least it got the juices flowing. And this meant, I suspect, that many of those with political views a million miles from those of Safire - to adopt W.H. Auden on William Butler Yeats - pardoned him for writing well. They missed him when he'd gone...
...Parus Hotel, the only hotel in town that's (sort of) equipped to handle a delegation of Moscow bigwigs, there were hordes of militia and security-service agents hanging out in the lobby and outside the hotel. (Wi-fi, fine dining and down comforters, among other amenities, are not common in Russia outside Moscow and St. Petersburg.) At night, the almighty descended on the bar in the first floor of the Parus for a spot of vodka or black tea. The bartender, who declined to give his name for fear of losing his job, quipped: "They ate, they drank, they...
...empathy aren't, necessarily - like fairness. Fairness is something we started investigating in monkeys. We would have two capuchin monkeys side by side working on a very simple task. One would get cucumber pieces, and the other would get grapes. If they both get cucumber, they're perfectly fine. But if you give one of them grapes, the other guy is all of a sudden not happy anymore. Some explanations of fairness are the golden rule: I treat you well and in a fair manner because that's how I want to be treated, which is a very complex explanation...
...complex social and administrative bureaucracies on campus. This “Harvard-only” mentality, I should note, was also espoused by Drew Faust’s adversaries in opposition to her presidential bid. (She never received a degree from Harvard and is, by all accounts, doing just fine...
...getting my license at 16 and three months like the law allowed. More recently, I have swapped a new engine into my 1992 Infiniti G20 two times—once because the old one was dead, the second time because although the first one was doing fine, I wanted more power. I do all the repairs and maintenance not only on my car, but also on my parents’. When I was on leave and working in Utah, I would occasionally take off from work early and go for hours-long drives in the mountains. And I religiously keep...