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...cramped apartment, Ng, the construction worker, worries that his two young sons will wind up dealing cards for a living instead of becoming bankers or policemen. "Working in a casino will have a bad influence on them," Ng says. There may be little, though, that he can do. Bruce Springsteen, in his classic song Atlantic City, tells of the dangerous mix of vice and hope that the casinos brought to the New Jersey shore. "Down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line," he sings. In Macau, too many...
...George W. Bush, by contrast, campaigned on a story fully intended to appeal as much to the heart as the brain. In the Republican tale, Bush was a strong leader ready to take on a dangerous world, while Kerry was a "flip-flopper" who held his finger to the wind. Or as Carville crudely put it, Bush effectively told the country, "I'm going to protect you from terrorists in Tehran and the homos in Hollywood...
...want to discount the daring of Petit's feat (or feet). He was working a hell of a way up from the ground, with the winds whistling and the towers themselves swaying as he traversed the space between them. But no matter how high in the sky a wire is, the person walking it is not an artist. He or she is just a daredevil, trying to grab the gawkers' attention. Since you could probably get yourself killed falling from a wire 30 feet off the ground, additional height enhances the spectacle, but aside from the wind gusts, the risk...
...Leaving home means abandoning small, enduring, everyday memories like particular street corners or the sibilant rattle of pine needles shaken by the wind off the San Francisco Bay. When I moved to Boston, folding the new streets and sounds into my daily life made me feel even farther away from home than I already felt, but it only took me a few days here to memorize and embrace the regular features of my walk to work: the cracks in the tiled sidewalk, the passing of the 201 bus that no one ever rides, the house with the bright blue door...
...muscle-flexing. "The lawyers who make up the military-justice community have felt dissed as a group and are feeling, perhaps, emboldened as a group," he says. Yet Fidell says he takes solace from Allred's decision. "My concern over the run-up to this is that we would wind up watching the legal equivalent of a cult movie, where everybody knows the next line," he says. "This shows it's not a cult movie, although that's not saying very much. But at least it's not an exercise in legal somnambulism...