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On Friday, Mr. Hammond described Stratfor as a "deserving target," an organization engaged in "intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations".
Even if it has failed to embrace plausible solutions, O.W.S. at least picked a deserving target — what National Review's Reihan Salam describes as the "moral rupture" created by Wall Street's and Washington's betrayal of the public trust.
The best number in the show, a Marlene Dietrich-like torch song sung by Mr. Feuer as Eva Braun, with the refrain, "Loving him is where I went wrong," works because it treats a deserving target with a kind of sympathy.
I spent some time researching Stratfor and reviewing the information we were given, and decided that their activities and client base made them a deserving target.
The announcement last week that Trader Monthly magazine was ceasing publication was one of those moments when a chance arrow of history scores a perfect bull's eye on a deserving target.
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A bigoted zealot, a baby-killer, a true despot, Thaddeus is the emblem in the play of the lure of vengeance, an absolutely deserving target of retribution who, seen outside the historical context of the play, might easily be represented by a powerful espouser of any fanatical perspective.
Goodness knows that the authority makes for an easy, and often deserving, target.
Unsurprisingly, the internet rage machine quickly homed in on the deserving target.
In 2002, the dean of Syracuse University's highly regarded Newhouse School of Public Communications, David Rubin, had an idea: put a panel of five professors from area colleges on air for 30 minutes to discuss the week's news, and have them each finish with A's and F's -- a high and a low grade for two deserving targets.
He knows how to educate, raise hackles and then release tension with a good laugh, at the expense of his always tempting, always deserving targets.
Mob justice may have deserving targets but it is always crude and usually goes too far.
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