yuppie /4-2/ inquiry, spin, food
INQUIRY QUE / FOLLOW-UPS
a) WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH TWENTY DOLLARS?
What? I don’t know
Suppose you’re in court and you’re charged with breaking a law…
You can pay to go free
Is that all you have to do?
Yes
Even if you kill someone?
Uh, no
So: small offense, you pay, you go free, is that right?
Yes
Why do you even have to go to court?
…
What do the police achieve by getting you to come to court? … Well, they can call you a criminal now, or at least an offender and you’re basically helping them…
Make the numbers!
* “make the numbers” si z titulu nejméně užitečného obratu v celém textu jednoznačně vydobyde nejvíc místa v paměti studentů. Zapomeňte na suggest that, pulled over a deal with, to budou neznámí padlí téhle bitvy
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b) SO WHAT’S THE LESSON THAT I LEARNED BY, YOU KNOW, TALKING TO KOSENZA AND GLADYS’ DAUGHTER AND GOING TO COURT? … IS THERE A PRICE TO PAY FOR CLEAN STREETS? WHAT IS IT?
Even if you’re a good person who never breaks the law, you may find that the police are looking for you just because you got a parking ticket that you didn’t pay
Exactly. In other words, the clean streets…
… are not free
Yes, or you could say that they come … with … a …
… price
* “come with a price” je druhý nejméně užitečný obrat, hned po “make the numbers” a i pokud bych jej při inquiry třeba použil, rozhodně bych nebazíroval na jeho použití studenty při převyprávění: aren’t free nebo you have to pay a price for jsou úplně dostačující, ostatně chválou bych zavalil autora odpovědi začínající na even if, a nikoli toho, kdo si vybaví spojení “come with a price”
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c) WHAT DO NYC COPS THINK OF GIULIANI’S POLICIES? ARE THEY HAPPY THAT THE WORST CRIMINALS ARE GONE NOW?
Uh, y-e-e-e-e-e-s
Well, I don’t think so.
No?
No.
Why?
I think some of them actually enjoyed fighting the drug dealers and the real criminals…
Oh yeah, the officer at the station
Yes. How did he feel about the changes?
He was kind of disappointed.
A.T. IDEAS / SPIN-OFF
monolog by / interview with
» a) older officer
» b) Pakistani immigrant … I have just come to this country. I lived in Pakistan for thirty years and the whole time I dreamed of going to the U.S. I had to pay a lot of money to this guy who promised to get me here. There were a lot of borders to cross and I was afraid to make the journey on my own. I was hoping that once I got here, everything would be ok. I would get a job, buy a small house and start a family. And one day my kids would all go to college so they can learn to build bombs and blow up the White House
» c) the judge
» d) $ 20
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conversation between
» a) the older officer and the Pakistani guy
» b) Kosenza and Adam
» c) the attorney and the judge
» d) Adam and the judge after the verdict
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
» how stuff works: immigration; undercover police work, Pakistan
Pakistan is a country in Asia. It used to be part of India until it broke away after WW2. Pakistanis and Indians are said to hate each other still. I read an article about Pakistan the other day and I was amazed to learn that there are over 165 million people living there. We have been reading quite a lot about Pakistan in the past few years because it’s where Osama bin Ladin is apparently hiding. The Pakistani government is thought to be helping the US in its war on terror but there are territories near the border with Afghanistan where the government has no power over people… (říkal jsem, že předpokládám studenty s určitým rozhledem)
» what would you do: if you had to leave your country and found yourself in the US, for instance, with no money and no one there to help you
» devil’s advocate: there should be no such thing as visa. everyone should be allowed to move all over the world freely