Word: forbiddenness
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...busy day before the July 4 holiday, 115,000 travelers passed through Denver International Airport, compared with 99,000 on an average day in 2001. Flyers got a holiday surprise or two-like a red-white-and-blue-festooned sign at the United Airlines ticket counter reading, Warning! Fireworks forbidden in your carry-on and checked luggage. Violators may pay large fines and/or serve up to five years in prison. But waits at the security checkpoints (six have just been added, bringing the total to a generous 20) were usually less than five minutes, and passengers seemed to be handling...
...vote last Friday in Dallas. It looks as if "we've just hung the priests out to dry," said the Brooklyn auxiliary bishop. Despite some complaints from victims, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops document is laudably tough on priests who abuse: any molester, past or future, will be forbidden to wear a collar, celebrate a public Mass or publicly call himself a priest. But the superiors who enabled the behavior got off easy. The document's defenders point out that only the Pope may fire a bishop, which is true. But by failing to censure any by name...
...consolidate and close factories; top executives were usually shown the door in favor of eager, young middle managers willing to work long hours. To make sure his charges made their numbers, Kozlowski dangled rich performance bonuses. And he insisted on running a lean, decentralized operation. Memos are practically forbidden, as are lengthy meetings. Only about 150 employees--mainly top executives, lawyers, accountants and bankers--work at headquarters in Exeter...
...sexual morality, the same practical exceptions apply, but to a lesser extent. Divorce is forbidden, and divorced remarried Catholics are barred from the sacraments. But annulments are plentiful--if you can prove that your marriage was from the outset so dysfunctional it wasn't a marriage at all. So complete failures can be rescued, but human messes are unforgivable, and fresh starts for the imperfect ruled out of bounds. Similarly, homosexuals are informed that they are born that way, but no sexual intimacy is permissible, because it cannot lead to procreation. But the infertile are married every day; postmenopausal spouses...
...briefing in the prison's outer section, Siwa explains the rules to a motley media circus. "Remember, this is a maximum security prison," he says. "Leave your mobile phones, bags and wallets in the lockers provided. Interviews with prisoners are forbidden except with my permission. You will be body searched." He smiles. "And if anything goes wrong, I hope you can run fast." After the promised pat-down and a trip through a metal detector under the scrutiny of granite-jawed guards clutching M-16s and big wooden sticks, the reporters are ushered through two sets of tall steel gates...