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GREAT piece about charity efforts and worthy causes from Marina Hyde



Wozza

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Jul 6, 2003
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It's an early call, but the Boston marathon bombing may well be the least successful terrorist plot in living memory. I doubt the realisation dawned on the suspect now lying dead in a hospital morgue, his last breaths taken as medical staff battled unquestioningly to save him as they would any other patient. But if the effect of your supreme act of cynicism is to slough away cynicism, then you are a stunning failure, and so is what we'll flatter absurdly as your "ideology".

A week ago, many might well have remarked that Sunday's London marathon was probably only a year off being rebranded the McDonald's London marathon. Even more might have confessed to that slight reflexive dread as another sponsorship request pinged in. Anyone who denies that a certain degree of ennui has accrued around such events must ask themselves why so many charity marathon runners feel the need to begin their emails with regretful second-guessing. "I hope you don't mind …", "Sorry for another request …"

As Boston has reminded the world: DON'T YOU DARE APOLOGISE.

Continued here: Why the Boston terrorist plot is the least successful in living memory | Marina Hyde | Comment is free | The Guardian
 


Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
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Great story and the surgeon is well over his target now.
 




W.C.

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Great piece.
 



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