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...conventional wisdom that 'nice guys finish last' and 'no good deed goes unpunished.' Our culture has helped to propagate the myth of social Darwinism--of the survival of the fittest--that the cutthroat 'me vs. you philosophy' wins the day." (Alas, it may be that neither style will prove effective. A 2004 Stanford Graduate School of Business study found that "women who enact stereotypically supportive feminine behaviors may be liked but seen as less competent, while women who enact aggressive behaviors risk being disliked and disqualified for gendered leadership roles." Who triumphs? Traditionally masculine men, say the authors...
...Regal dwelled overmuch on this aspect. Jigsaw's main victim is Jeff (Angus McFayden), who has been consumed with bilious revenge since his beloved son was killed by a driver who received a light prison sentence. Now in Jigsaw's lair, Jeff must go through several torture tests to prove he can forgive those who wronged him. In an apparently unrelated "B" story, Jigsaw has kidnaped Lynn (Bahar Soomekh), a doctor, to see if she can relieve the pain of his brain tumor. For those who think horror movies aren't brain surgery, they're wrong. This...
...rationales for his eccentric behavior. One is to punish people he believes are moral transgressors, though his judgments tend to be hasty and draconian. The other is more personal: Jigsaw, eventually revealed as John Kramer (Tobin Bell), is suffering from a fatal brain tumor, and he wants to prove that only having faced death can a man truly savor life. Or, as he puts it a bit more proscriptively in Saw II, "Those who don't appreciate life do not deserve life...
...mayor as “not black enough,” offers an interesting case study. Some felt that Cory Booker should not serve as mayor of Newark (54 percent black) because he was raised in a predominantly white suburb of New Jersey. Booker has had to prove his commitment to the city and its residents, especially by trying to decrease the crime rate, since he took office three months...
...Roxbury and the unending mess that is the Big Dig spring to mind, to name a just a couple of poor decisions. True to form, the recent decisions by the MBTA to raise public transportation fares and by the MTA to eliminate all turnpike tolls beyond Route 128 will prove to be a terrible tandem, encouraging people to hop off the T and back into their cars...