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...grain. Out of a total of $65 billion set aside to buy grain from farmers since 1992, $25 billion--40%--had disappeared. Investigators found that much of the missing money had gone into luxury condominiums, futures trading and the purchase of cars and mobile phones--the kind of graft that makes the short-tempered Zhu go ballistic...
Sinatra lived the music at every tempo, the sad soul of it as well as the brash, brassy swing. Or maybe his need to graft his life onto every song he sang was an unintended effect of his artistry, a scramble to find personal corollaries for every melody he molded, every lyric he bent to his own will and purpose...
Biggest blunders: Teapot Dome oil-leasing scandal; other instances of Administration graft...
Making sense of the world is no easy task. Out of our "constellations of memory" (stolen from Sartre), we graft purpose onto an acted past, we draw narratives commemorating that which we later feel is significant, we weave quilts of determination out of a randomized existence, and we build brick cities to connect everyone with everything and everything to a purpose. We want to make sense of the lived environment and often we do--too often. For if it is possible to do so from marble. Why we choose one over the other is a matter of preference, economy, geography...
...middle course. We do not need to run after the other nations. There is no need to keep up with Joneses for keeping up with the Joneses' sake. Our educational mandates and challenges are different than those of other countries, and it would be a mistake to suddenly graft the educational system of the Netherlands--the highest scoring country--onto the United States. For instance, in many European countries, like France, Switzerland and Germany, students are tracked by vocational goals and projected ability at an early age. This is clearly not the right system for the United States...