Word: gardinier
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...first and only time a challenger has wrested away the Cup -- it was mostly because of their newfangled keels flanked by little wings to diminish underwater drag. If Koch, a multimillionaire with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., trounced four-time winner Conner and the Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made from a revolutionary carbon fiber/polymer blend. As Whitbread veteran Merritt Carey, one of the two self-described "bow chicks" on the women's team...
...irony of the Gardini and Cagliari funerals is not in the pagan association with honor, but in the religious character of the services. The Christianized West has long condemned suicide.. In antithesis to the pagan heroic ideal, the act is associated with a great evil, something more awful even the taking another's life; it is the single irrevocable sin. Yet Gardini becomes a victim, and Cagliari as well, both assassinated by politics...
...possible to judge the act itself and remain immune from the circumstances. In the political world, a suicide often involves issues reaching beyond the individual in question. While the deaths of Cagliari and Gardini in themselves cannot be reconciled, it is necessary to find them in some way fitting final words on the extent to which the establishment has rotted in Italy...
...distance ourselves from the particular event of a political suicide, we must strive to learn something from this history. In Eco's conception, exclusive responsibility cannot be foisted onto to a Gardini or a Cagliari. When it is possible to see through to a more malignant crisis, as the Tangentopoli in Italy, the whole national psyche must be shook into a greater self-awareness...
Otherwise, what might be revealed is a character untainted himself in wrongdoing like the incarcerated Cagliari, or even implicated in mispolitics like Gardini, but who was broken in a few months by the soil of a political landscape few cold ever imagine. Perhaps it it time to re-examine my own perspective...