Now we have to picture Alan Greenspan in a black leather corset, with a butt tattoo that says, Whip inflation now.

It is in a club where we let our hair down, freed of the ideological and patriarchal corset that dictates each and every allowed movement and expression according to the genitals.

If the Bosnians lack the capability to modify the iron corset bequeathed to them at Dayton, the EU remains indifferent, and the United States is preoccupied with the Middle East, South Asia, and China, what lies ahead?

Even if these initiatives are motivated by party rivalry, they nevertheless pose an essential question do we know how to ennoble our democracy? Can we impose on ourselves a corset of higher ethical standards, thereby refuting Plato s objections to democracy, which are no less our own?