The opening of the season is usually greeted by articles in the right-wing press discussing how good the bag may be, but this year is accompanied by comment of a different nature: a book suggesting forcefully that there is something criminal at the very heart of it.
And I felt there was something shameful about it all, about such conspicuous neglect in a country overflowing with monuments to its stars — adopted and native-born alike — much as there is something criminal about the fact that, back at home, his writing never won a major award.
Which prompted him to wonder: "Is there something inescapably criminal in the process of quickly raising money for a new enterprise?" No, he decided, "there's something escapably criminal" about that process, that requires "regulators, prosecutors and an ethics that the ambitious and wealthy will live by".
Should every home have government-installed security camera in every room on the off chance that a person living there might one day do something criminal?
"It just goes to show that, actually, if you're out there, you're looking at the images, you're doing something criminal - it's not a victimless crime".
IS THERE something about the nature of contracting out government work in foreign countries that makes it more prone to scandal, fraud, waste, abuse, and lethal criminal stupidity?
"I wanted to tell them they had done something criminal".
Will Cundo expect something from Foley, probably something criminal, in return?
There was something there, something unexpected.
"Truth is, even with the sadness, or maybe because of it, there's something about criminal cases that makes me frisky," she says.
