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Most of us are just small-scale cheaters: We speed on the highway; we make minor omissions on our tax forms; we sneak in through the back door at Adams. We’ve become accustomed to these minor infractions. But the Big Rules almost everyone obeys. Let’s face it—even murderers stop at red lights. So it’s really a shock to the system when the basic fairness of the world is exposed for what it is—frankly, a big sham. Thou shalt not swindle thy shareholders out of their...
...though, the much-hyped Howard lived up to his billing as the nation’s top goaltender, preternaturally snagging slapshots ripped high to his glove side; with shoulders squared to the puck as it moved cross-ice, he left little room for a rebound and even less to sneak the puck across the line...
...isn’t as if Howard has had the luxury of allowing the puck to sneak past him on occasion. Including that Minuteman marathon and both of his other playoff starts, seven of Howard’s last 11 have been decided by a single tally or less...
...this finger wagging, this easy moral superiority. So every news channel, editorial writer and sports columnist spent a lot of last week excoriating Todd Bertuzzi, who plays hockey for the Vancouver Canucks. All Bertuzzi did was sneak up behind Colorado Avalanche centerman Steve Moore toward the end of a 9-2 game last week and punch that member of the winning team in the side of the head. Then slam Moore's face into the ice until his neck broke and the blood pooled. Bertuzzi was rearing back for another shot when other players intervened. Some fans at Vancouver...
...American accessory. Until I was nine years old, my three younger siblings and I were as blissfully plugged in as all the other kids in our Seattle neighborhood. We watched TV after school, we watched Saturday morning cartoons, we snuck behind the couch past our Thursday night bedtimes to sneak peeks of Seinfeld—all pretty standard behavior. But it was enough for my parents to worry, as they told us countless times, that our brains were turning to mush. Once when my mother came home from a long day at work and found us vegged out in front...