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Escobar claimed to have been conducting a war on behalf of the Colombian slums, avenging the brutality of the police with still more brutality of his own, and we can see that, in a perverse way, he did feel something of a righteous indignation.
Some of us may even take a slightly perverse delight in the ability to rattle off the first 90-odd names of the elements to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's Modern Major General, thanks to the jeu d'esprit of a brash young Harvard junior-faculty statistician in the early 1950s.
It also would provide perverse incentives to opposing litigants to drag out legal proceedings with the expectation that an alien might have to temporarily depart from the country, or engage in other forms of procedural abuse.
Which is why, in a perverse way, Tiger's current problems are good news--for they take place against a background of a generally calmer world, one that has learned to live with a greatly reduced role for investors such as Mr. Robertson.
At this juncture, Three Kings seems poised to turn into a relatively straightforward genre piece--a perverse "caper" movie with a touch of Gunga Din (1939).