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Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)

"The great German sociologist Max Weber famously described the work of politics as 'a strong and slow boring of hard boards,' a profession that 'takes both passion and perspective.' His words were a caution to those who lost their appetite for political engagement whenever they were confronted with the trade-offs inherent in policy making. A political world without compromise, Weber understood, was a world in which nothing was accomplished — or else everything was accomplished entirely. The first was a stagnant state of affairs, the second subject to tyranny. Neither one was consistent with democratic politics."

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In New York, a Nose for Hidden Cigarettes






By MICHAEL WILSON


Cigarettes purchased in states with lower taxes than New York’s — to be sold illegally — are often kept in secret compartments in bodegas, posing a challenge for detectives.

"Where else in this country are you going to get a mzungu waiter?"





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The Guardian
Share trades worth more than the size of Sweden’s economy were cancelled in Tokyo on Wednesday as a stockbroker corrected what was probably the biggest “fat finger” trade ever.


Japanese broker makes £380bn ‘fat finger’ trade
Trader bought large stake in Toyota, Sony and Honda before cancelling them

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"Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective"

If you want to bore (i.e. drill) a hole in hard wood, you need to do it slowly to avoid overheating and consequently dulling your drill, making it less useful or even useless for further work. That is why you need "passion and perspective" to do it right.

bode

bəʊd/

verb

3rd person present: bodes

1. be a portent of a particular outcome.

bodega

 Line breaks: bo¦dega
Pronunciation: /bəˈdeɪɡə
NOUN

A cellar or shop selling wine and food, especially in a Spanish-speaking country or area.

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Origin
mid 19th century: from Spanish, via Latin from Greekapothēkē 'storehouse'. Compare with boutique.





Mzungu (pronounced [m̩ˈzuŋɡu]) is a Bantu language term used in the African Great Lakes region to refer to people of European descent. It is a commonly used expression among Bantu peoples in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Zambia.

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fat finger

Line breaks: fat fin¦ger
informal

NOUN
Used to refer to clumsy or inaccurate typing, typically resulting from one finger striking two keys at the same time:the programming problem turned out to be a case of fat finger[AS MODIFIER]: his texts are full of fat-finger mistakes


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VERB (fat-finger) [WITH OBJECT]Back to top
Type (something) inaccurately:you may have fat-fingered your password


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Derivatives
fat-fingered ADJECTIVE

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