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...partner for the black community. "You know what I liked more than anything? Wal-Mart has a 10-foot rule, where if a customer comes within 10 feet of an employee, you have to ask them if they need any help," said Garner. "A lot of our young people walk around with a chip on their shoulder, and I thought I'd love to bring [this new] attitude to them, to our community...
They began losing games in ways that even the Cubs hadn't invented. Why, they blew one game on a walk-off balk. Now, any kind of balk is as improbable as a lunar eclipse. But to have your newly acquired veteran, Mike Stanton, come on to relief pitch in the bottom of the 10th, a man on first and third, and have him lose the game with some imperceptible twitch of a muscle, spotted only by a man in blue 70 ft. away who then waves home the winning run without the benefit of a single batted ball...
...colleague asked when I sought wardrobe advice. "You're going to go back to school?'' Technically, my son's the one starting kindergarten. But I'm the one with the jitters. My firstborn is so nonchalant--about making friends, meeting his teachers--that he asked if he could walk himself to school when it starts...
With your cell phone, you first Google your suitcase--it has a small implanted chip that responds to radio waves with a GPS locator--and it turns out that your luggage has been deposited 200 yds. away in the next terminal. As you walk over, you search for a hotel room; the screen of your cell shows you pictures of several hotels in your price bracket, with views from individual room windows. Your search engine gives you a list of pharmacies that are still open at this hour, and tells you that your favorite blues band will be playing...
Actually, the patriotic thing to do? as Sen himself asserts in his new book?would have been to walk out. In The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity Sen insists that the love of debate and dissent is as deeply entrenched in Indian culture as the love of religion and mysticism. Understanding this little-known fact, he says, is one of the keys to unlocking the puzzle that still baffles so many Western political scientists: how an impoverished and unruly country like India has turned into one of the world's most successful democracies...