Word: waywardness
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...Heat of the Moment,” “Old School” had Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again,” and “Anchorman” had Kansas’s “Carry On, My Wayward Son.” These songs, many of which came out before we were born, were once considered the least cool songs in American music history. Now, knowing the riffs is the mark of a true hipster. We changed our ringtones to reflect how awesomely uncool we were. And yet, we knew...
...have a nice safety net if you lose your belongings. A new ID card is just $20 (or $40 for the chronic offenders) away, all of which can go directly to your term bill. In fact, sending the cost to your term bill is the default option. If wayward partygoers do any damage to your dorm room, you’ll be covered at the end of the year. Mom and Dad will cover the holes in the walls, excessive spills on the carpet, and the dead Newfoundland in your shower, as all repairs are term-billed. No country club...
...What's really worrisome is that Beijing's impotence in this area reflects a similar inability to enforce its will on wayward local authorities in a whole range of crucial areas. If the central government can't stop the sale of Gucci knock-off handbags around the corner from its own enforcement office, how can they stop factories poisoning the drinking water tens of millions of its citizens depend on a thousand miles away? It's a scary thought for the Chinese and the outside world...
There's a lot of amusing interaction but not much of a plot. Eventually these wayward but well-meaning souls relocate to the impossibly sumptuous estate of a Russian mogul. You know all the while that there's a parched, nasty world out there, just waiting to correct their follies, and that the consolations of love and sex and art, which Smiley endorses all through this lovely book, won't really protect them. But our author lives up to her name in the best way. She blesses those people, shortcomings...
Still, Vatican watchers say it remains an open question if the Benedict-Bertone team--which may have been effective in imposing orthodoxy on wayward theologians when the pair ran the doctrinal office--has the worldly vision and institutional muscle to impose their will on the 1.1 billion--strong universal church...