In a high-level turnaround, Robert Scott, the commissioner of the Texas Education Agency, said Tuesday that student testing in the state had become a "perversion of its original intent" and that he looked forward to "reeling it back" in the future.
It has become a perversion of a perversion, thanks to the cynicism of the pharmaceutical and medical industries, dynamo publicists and doctors who on occasion perform what one of Kuczynski's sources calls a "P.W.B".
While desire, value and exploitation are themes that run throughout the book, Here Comes The Sun ultimately becomes a meditation on the perversion of love, and the unscrupulous means to attain it.
But it also can become a cocoon, or worse, a perversion.
Its aesthetic quality has become a real danger, as it is a perversion of the truth.
And then there's the record of the Human Rights Council, born three years ago out of the ashes of the former U.N. Human Rights Commission–an outfit which in 2003 became a world-class symbol of U.N. perversion by choosing Libya to chair its proceedings.
They have laid bare the "perversion of politics, which has become a job for many, a high-paying placement system," wrote Ezio Mauro, the editor of La Repubblica, a daily newspaper.
Sometimes the battle becomes so violent that a perversion in the artist can occur: these days, Joni Mitchell thinks of herself more as a painter than a singer.
Or become an Ordained Roman Catholic Priest and commit sexual acts of perversion and then slaughter and sacrifice children on the alter of a naked woman.
The Orwellian perversions by which the racism conference threatens to become an international platform for the promotion of bigotry should arouse all those who yearn for the success of the struggle against racism.
