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...that not only does the dictatorship implode because of it, but so does the idea of any finite distinction between the human and the inhuman. The only action leaves two innocent victims “sagging on their fetters like empty sacks” and the reader trying in vain to shake off chills.—Staff writer Anna I. Polonyi can be reached at apolonyi@fas.harvard.edu
...Consulate’s hallowed inner sanctuary was a stuffy bunker-like room of visa-hungry Moroccans. I searched in vain for a water cooler to replace my lost bottle. Instead, I was welcomed by a cheerful three-minute promotional video, full of floppy-haired children, happy businessmen, family barbecues, one lone black woman and one woman in a hijab: “I am America!” they cried. “Welcome...
...photographer is a powerful status symbol, even if it's also an indulgence in narcissism. Barker, 29, posted an ad on Craigslist for a paparazzo to accompany him and 14 male friends during a bar-hopping birthday party in Chicago last November. Many of the responses were hostile ("You vain vain [expletive]," one read), but a woman, Mandy Johnston, took the job--delivering to the guys afterward an elaborate package of digital photos and prints and, during the evening, unexpected VIP stature: the crew skipped to the front of the line at several clubs. "We got in faster because...
...attempt to fix the death penalty bogs down in the same ambivalence. We add safeguards one day, then shortcut them the next. One government budget contains millions of dollars for prosecutions, while another department spends more millions to defend against them. Indeed, the very essence of ambiguity is our vain search for a bloodless, odorless, motionless, painless, foolproof mode of killing healthy people. No amount of patching changes the nature of a Rube Goldberg machine. In 1996 Congress passed an extensive overhaul of capital punishment, but as in all previous overhauls, the changes quickly spawned new nuances to appeal...
Oddly, that's not a vain hope. My son has put up a tree in his Muslim home; I've been told to find a Santa suit, and my grandkids are learning carols. This is the peace I find in Bethlehem at Christmas...