Word: sagaing
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...challenge for any analysis of the Microsoft antitrust saga is to resolve its central enigma: How could the same people who'd been so brilliant in the lab and the boardroom--building the world's most valuable corporation in a mere generation--have been so wrongheaded in the courtroom? Auletta has a provocative answer: what the Jesuits call holy effrontery. He argues that Bill Gates and his disciples are so convinced of the rightness of their cause that they can't even conceive that they might be wrong--or that any fairminded person could think...
...State-designate Colin Powell; Christine Todd Whitman, Bush's choice for EPA administrator; Mel Martinez, the HUD secretary-designate; or Treasury hopeful Paul O'Neill were treated to a day of friendly banter occasionally interrupted by the odd probing question. Those who sat in on John Ashcroft's continuing saga before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the other hand, witnessed another scene altogether, one marked by harsh repudiation and angry retorts...
...BLAKE NELSON O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? For a smart guy like Tim Blake Nelson (a classics major from Brown who is also a screenwriter and director), playing dim-witted Delmar in the Coen brothers' sly and shaggy saga of redemption on the run posed certain problems. None was more daunting than authentically conveying Delmar's belief that one of his fellow escapees from a 1930s Mississippi chain gang had been turned into a toad by backwoods sirens...
...Augustine's "lovely brainwave, we would have been exterminated long ago." But it was a warped, creepy kind of sufferance, a little like keeping someone chained to the radiator instead of doing him in. And it set the stage for countless persecutions as the Christian-Jewish saga rolled...
...vast and complex saga. Burns may be the only documentary filmmaker at work today who would be entrusted with the time and resources to reckon with it, but he is also one of the least likely to have brought it off. Whatever the considerable merits of his previous epic undertakings like The Civil War and Baseball, they did not have the rich vein of recklessness, the abandon and the humor, the rhapsodic beauty or deep darkness, that are all so much a part of jazz. They may have been terrific, but they sure didn't swing...