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Baseball's argument is that betting on one's own team corrupts the game. At minimum, it puts the bettor in touch with -- and all too likely in debt to -- gamblers, who may well want to pervert competition for their own ends. At worst, it gives the bettor a financial stake in trying harder to win some games, those on which he has money riding, than others. But to many people this stern morality is as outdated as the 70-year-old scandal that prompted it. In 1919 eight members of the Chicago White Sox were charged with taking money...
...That's the tradition of liberalism I grew up in," Dukakis said. "That's the tradition I believe in. And I'm not going to let the Republican Party pervert that word and give it a meaning it doesn't have...
...years later. In his book, Stalker implies that he was ousted for implicating senior R.U.C. officers, that he found evidence of a "police inclination, if not policy, to shoot suspects dead without warning, rather than arrest them," and that at least eleven policemen were involved in a conspiracy to pervert justice...
Theroux is onto a good thing. The idea of wilderness is central to the American imagination. Nature's nation, as a scholar once called the U.S., defines itself by the open spaces it can occupy and eventually foul. The synthetic environments of Coldharbor and the Owners' vicarious entertainments pervert the definition of nation, to say nothing of personality. Connected by computer, talking to one another through radio-helmets, Theroux's privileged few incubate fantasies and promote hideous realities. The worst is a pornography of violence practiced by a private police force known as Godseye. They roam Manhattan's abandoned neighborhoods...
...caller asked several personal questions, including whether she had ever applied to the Harvard Business School. Initially, Spence recalled, she thought it was an obscene call from "a pervert with an MBA fetish...