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...Because their decision making is usually more diffuse, institutions aren't as susceptible to cognitive dissonance. Corporations and political parties routinely say one thing (the GOP is the party of strict values) and do another (the party let Louisiana Senator David Vitter, who unlike Craig holds a swing-state seat, get off with a simple apology after he was linked to a female prostitution ring). The GOP's moralizers deserve some pity. The party itself, not so much...
...great respect for the army, says Mehdi, "because they are supposed to protect us. But today the military only came to rescue their own, they took them to the hospital, but they didn't help the civilians at all, they didn't even offer help." The fake leopard-skin seat covers of his battered Suzuki compact were littered with the broken glass of all four windows and his windshields. "I am unhappy," he says. "They should have at least offered to repair...
...Their attitude has never been exactly enlightened. They refer to Iraqis as "sand n-----s," and when one car goes speeding toward the checkpoint (after, the driver says, being waved through), they blow it up, injuring the driver and killing the woman in the back seat, who had been about to give birth. After the sergeant's death, one of the squad's less evolved members, B.B. Rush (Daniel Stewart Sherman), starts frisking an Iraqi schoolgirl with unseemly sexual forcefulness...
...Vitter's job was saved only by the fact that his replacement would have been named by Louisiana's Democratic governor, and the Republicans were not about to sacrifice a seat. Given that Idaho is heavily Republican, "his replacement, unlike Vitter's, was guaranteed to be an electable Republican," Sabato said. "This was an easy call for the G.O.P. leadership...
...thinking that people wanted massive airplanes to go between the continents," says Neidl. "What's wrong with that is that they don't." The A380 might work for flights to hubs such as London's Heathrow but probably not for intermediate cities, where passengers prefer direct service. And while seat-mile costs can be reduced for an airline with such an aircraft, too many seats to fill can erode yields...