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Athletes race down the north end of the Great Highway during the bike portion of the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon in San Francisco, Calif., on June 3, 2007. Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images
John Adams observed: “Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other: If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.” Someone else proclaimed: “Nothing intoxicates some people like a sip of authority.”
