Word: perfectible
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...undisputed upside to the current trend is that public-interest and legal-aid firms will finally receive some much needed help. Bob Glaves, executive director of the Chicago Bar Foundation, says these organizations are experiencing a "perfect storm" of dramatic cutbacks and an expanding need for services. "These groups desperately need assistance with a crisis of their own," says Glaves, whose organization is the charitable arm of the Chicago Bar Association. "Programs that help them and provide associates with real-world experience benefit everyone involved...
...cultures like the Navajo have been doing it for centuries--for-profit companies in the U.S. and Canada are catching on, infusing products with good vibes through meditation, prayer and even music. Since 2006, California company H2Om has sold water infused with wishes for "love," "joy" and "perfect health" via the words, symbols and colors on the label (which "create a specific vibratory frequency," according to co-founder Sandy Fox) and the restorative music played at their bottling warehouse. At Creo Mundi, a Canadian maker of protein powder, employees gather around each shipment and state aloud the benefits they hope...
...disappointment, the ANC sent him back to work in Cape Town. He quickly became a key figure in the city's opposition and by 1985 he was in jail. Regular detentions followed. During one release, Manuel, who had married, met his toddler son for the first time. (Read: "A perfect day in Cape Town...
...have never tried to present myself as 'Captain Perfect' - I'm not. Never have been 'Captain Morality' or anything like that. I'm not, never have been and we all make mistakes and I've made one here." - On visiting a strip club during a 2003 taxpayer-funded trip to New York. (The Times of London, August...
...idea beloved by screenwriters: the perfect crime. But in Hollywood movies, even the cleverest plot is usually derailed by an unforeseen hitch. Now a real-life heist in Germany seems to have flouted that rule along with its moral subtext that crime doesn't pay. In January, $6.8 million worth of jewelry was snatched from the cases of Kaufhaus des Westens, a luxurious seven-story department store universally known as KaDeWe and as much a Berlin landmark as the Victory Column and the Brandenburg Gate. Three masked, gloved thieves were caught on surveillance cameras sliding down ropes from the store...