What was once the preserve of either high-rollers or low-lifes is now being roundly embraced by the mass of ordinary folk in between.The changing of the guard at the top of poker reflects this move into the mainstream.
His few friendships with schoolmates and colleagues were almost erotically intense, but even the closest were thwarted by his inability to adapt to the vicissitudes of ordinary life: changing tastes, emotional competition, the troubling tendency of the clever men he knew to acquire dullish wives.
The immediate and drastic shutdown of northern European airspace this week starkly contrasts with the temporizing defenses of the difficulty of changing our ordinary way of living (including trans-Atlantic travel) that most of us plead in relation to the threat of climate change.
But there are better correctives than leaving our freedom to the whims of "ordinary citizens," like changing the laws and punishing abuses of prosecutorial discretion.
He served on the Supreme Court for close to a quarter of a century and with liberal colleagues established a new sociological jurisprudence, responsive to the changing realities of ordinary life.
The Queens Museum tracks this historic rush ahead via the path of the Bombay School to today's blue-chip practitioners, though it is a story that can also be told in statistics, or in the changing homes of ordinary people.
"Whatever people thought about the military action, I think everybody has got an obligation to support the democrats and the democratic process here in Iraq because it offers the best hope of changing the lives of ordinary Iraqis". Amid the violence in Iraq, police found the bodies of at least 15 more people, including that of a 13-year-old girl, dumped in and near Baghdad.
But the instability and the ordinary angst of adolescence were compounded by changing three different high schools before he graduated from Sun Prairie high school, in another largely white community outside of Madison.
In investigating a lynching in a small provincial town, for example, he reveals the deep popular distrust of officialdom and the justice system.A common theme in his essays is how ordinary Mexicans are changing, often because of their experiences as migrants, in the United States or within their own country.
