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...professional sports we have often allowed these expectations to take a back seat to our own entertainment. As a society, we’d rather sweep Barry Bonds’ drug allegations under the rug and pay huge ticket prices to see him continue to break records than to watch just one more average player. We are a culture that reveres achievement at any cost whether in the board room or on the playing field, and in a year dominated by corporate, political, and athletic scandal it’s evident that as long as our expectations are so high...
...things more efficiently than do their government counterparts. Even judges turn to mobsters for help. "Our motto," a criminal overlord tells Mehta, "is insaaniyat, humanity." When an ordinary, law-abiding citizen comes to Bombay from elsewhere, Mehta shows, he soon learns that just to buy a movie ticket or get the plumbing fixed involves shortcuts and contacts. Before long, he too survives only by breaking...
This past August I worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. While there, one day I was guarding the main entrance gallery, watching for visitors who were getting too close to the works of art or that had passed by the ticket office without leaving their oversized bags and bottles of water. There was one man, rather old and cantankerous, who turned his back to me when I politely said, "Sir, you must check your water bottle back at the lockers." When I more firmly asked him again, he turned back to face me, full water...
What if we aren’t heading towards the station after all? Klaus’ silence brings on a moment of terror. But soon we’re there. Then guilt. Why was I still suspicious? I buy the train ticket; Klaus disappears. Searching everywhere, I notice the car is gone, too. He must not like good-byes, but I had wanted to thank him properly...
Taken together, Bush’s amiable prevarications and Cheney’s clever malice just might spell a winning ticket. In a sense, they’ve already won a personal victory: they have transformed their public image from that of tongue-tied oratorical brutes to veritable acrobats of rhetoric. If that doesn’t count as a flip-flop, I don’t know what does...