When Roy Pearson Jr. broke down in tears on the witness stand last week, describing the moment he realized his Korean dry cleaners had misplaced one of his estimated 60 pairs of pants, said Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe, it sounded like a scene from Borat. I found myself torn between amazed laughter and profound dismay at the sort of
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