When the president's characterization of our economy was "it could be worse," it reminded me of Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake".
But he won hearts, if not minds, by throwing lavish parties and opening his chequebook to British causes.Great as his beneficence was, it could be self-serving.
Like any fishing expedition, which indeed it was, it could be sustained only if there were a lot of fishy things below the surface, which indeed there were.
When Avery was evaluated by the pain specialists at Boston Children's, they told Nault that, because Avery couldn't talk about his pain, there was no way to know what the problem was; it could be anything, they said, even a tooth coming in.
When The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, defended the incendiary illustration in a statement invoking the spirit of satire as something "meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to the absurd," he was, it could be argued, mischaracterizing his subject.
He was, it could be said, a freelancer with no academic or political ties to the university (outside of his connection to Mersenne).
