Given how neatly these facts mirror our flailing efforts to manage our personal affairs, it makes perfect sense that so many people in recent weeks have embraced Whac-A-Mole as the metaphor for our complicated lives.
In a rapidly changing economic and political state of affairs, it makes sense to reduce plans to short, predictable time periods that seem more easily controllable: schedules that you can control, suppliers that can accurately predict their capacity and pricing, customers who can project their needs.
Much of the blame for this sorry state of affairs, it made clear, lay with the lack of leadership from the commission.
This is a desperately sad state of affairs, but it makes sense.
Mr. Cuomo says he is reluctant to discuss foreign affairs because it makes him appear to be actively seeking the 1988 Democratic Presidential nomination, which he says he is not.
When a company wants to hire someone without regulatory affairs experience, it makes the most sense to do it from within.
When a parent pokes nose on its child affair, it will make the latter to be secretive and when your child starts being secretive, he will no longer trust telling you things and will go on trusting their friends, these who will handle him/her wrong advice that will lead to troubles in the future.
It was a chaotic affair but it made the point, as various members of the teams underlined.
The young rabbi supposed that by telling him about the affair, it would make it appear that Rabbi Neulander had "bared his soul" -- even though the information would eventually come out anyway.
If Cook's press conference at the SCG was a slightly painful affair it was made all the more poignant by the presence of Michael Clarke at the back of the room and waiting to speak to the gathered media.
This affair matters most because it makes clear the estrangement of professional politicians from their wider parties.
