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...expect. Don't get us wrong, there's something endearing about your bad knees, your sore wrist, your human frailties. Now, at 38, you seem more, well, a little bit more like the rest of us, playing for a spectacularly mediocre team, still showing us those flashes of sheer brilliance, but generally slowing down a bit. You haven't gotten the coverage you would have if tragedy had not struck, but there's still plenty of pressure on you: pressure from the fans, who want the old Jordan back, pressure from the press, who want you to make news, already...
There has been no shortage of examples of courage and heroism on one side and of manipulation and cowardice on the other. The sheer cold-heartedness required to end the lives of thousands of innocents is as close to pure evil as one can imagine. At the same time, we remember firefighters sprinting into the shadow of the World Trade Center just before the towers fell. We remember the passengers on an ill-fated flight above Pennsylvania launching a last-ditch attack to regain control of an airplane, knowing they would likely die in the process. These sublime moments...
...Corporation members were displayed as Puri-tyrannical mascots while workers shouted for more money above the cacophony of drums and various assorted noisemakers. It was inspired casting: Scrooge hovering over the oppressed masses, with students as Robin Hoods—take from the rich, give to the poor. The sheer spectacle of the rally was enough to efface its animating principle, merely reducing the need for a living wage to a clash between Big, Bad, Corporate Harvard and its revolutionary peasantry...
...nation and the world—and there’s no serious argument that Harvard Corporation members are skimming off the top. Yes, Harvard is a large institution, but it still needs money to function, and to get money it sometimes invests in taxable real estate. The sheer scale of its $19 billion endowment just makes the University more impersonal (and not less effective) in the course of doing good...
...Independent columnist David Aaronovitch is scathing of his colleagues' rush to judgement. "Some people emit outrage like elephants' piss," he writes. "The sheer quantity of it soon covers the psychological landscape." He cites a number of accounts suggesting that the revolt was triggered by kamikaze prisoners. "Had, in 1944, a chateau full of captured SS men killed their captors and then holed up inside shooting at anything that moved, I doubt whether anyone now would have called their extinction a 'war crime', he writes. "Even so, we need to have an inquiry into what took place at Qalai Janghi. Because...