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What about a special mat that would help yoginis align themselves into perfect positions? "Because your shoulders are wider than your feet when you stand up straight, we created a shape that reflected that ergonomically," says Anne Appleby, founder of the California-based company YogaForce. For those who can't quite align their Warrior I pose, the mat also has a grid--a yoga cheat sheet of sorts--so that you can see how to line up your front foot with your back foot's middle arch. And there's a bonus for those who find themselves perpetually late...
...multi-national conglomerate. We first see Worner - where else? - presiding over his group of toadying yes-men in a boardroom. He sports a puppet on top of his head as some sort of crazed motivational device. "What is the half-life of your innovation?" he screams, in a perfect parody of corporate newspeak. Hart's musical ear for creating nonsense versions of the aerobicized cynicism of biz language becomes one of the book's biggest pleasures. When Worner later runs into a disguised Hutch spewing stream of consciousness poetry he thinks he's finally found someone who's "not afraid...
...creaky-jointed Roche to a part-time deal that will kick in before each of the grand slam events. Then again, perhaps he's not. "In this game you look for ways to improve," says former Australian pro John Alexander, "or you go backward." Technically, Federer is near to perfect. Roche certainly won't have to take apart and rebuild any of the Swiss's strokes, as he did with Pat Rafter's forehand in the 1990s. But maybe Federer could play a smarter game. The thrust of Alexander's argument is that because Federer's shotmaking from the baseline...
...cynical carve-up of positions at the head of key international institutions, the Bank's presidency is reserved for an American (Wolfensohn, although Australian by birth, is a naturalized one). But there is no American candidate - no, not even Colin Powell, of whom Bank staffers dream - who is as perfect a fit for the Bank as Brown. If the second George W. Bush Administration really wanted to prove to the world - as we keep hearing it does - that the arrogance of the last four years is over, there is no better way to prove the fact than by graciously giving...
...Before, the ideas came first and the thinker second; now it's reversed. BHL and the others are moralists who take up crusades on various issues, and rely on the media to advertise them - and themselves." The fury over BHL raises a question: if Lévy is the perfect French intellectual for the media age, what's become of intellectualism? Can the philosopher's rarefied habit of mind survive in the spotlight? The criticism is not entirely new; BHL's earlier works were widely denounced by late, great French intellectuals like Deleuze, Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Aron, who labeled...