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...Beyond the billing-sheet dishonesty, the lying in Double Billing occurs among the lawyers who actually convince themselves that they are satisfied with their lives. Stracher's strength here is in his description of his attempts to simply like his job and the disillusionment that finally compels him to abandon corporate law all together...
Judaism bonded the family and set its business dealings in a context of an outsiderdom so triumphant that it dwarfed mere kings. The Rothschilds resolutely refused to abandon their religion, even as they became barons and lords as well as collectors of great Christian art. Thus it was a family catastrophe when Nathan's second daughter, Hannah, renounced Judaism to marry a Christian, the younger son of Lord Southampton. The family banished Hannah and considered her dead. The marriage seemed cursed. Hannah's young son died in a fall from a pony. Her husband was passed over by Lord Aberdeen...
...persistent and perversely entertaining theme in Ian McEwan's fiction has been the anguish of conflicting moral obligations. For example, should a composer, at the moment he begins to sense how he can complete the symphony that will define his career, abandon his concentration to intervene on behalf of a woman who may be in danger of being raped...
...Pittsburgh division and began to rake in a small fortune from outside investments ranging from oil to iron bridges. When he was 33, the rich young man privately lectured himself that his continued pursuit of wealth "must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery." Yet he couldn't abandon the money chase. "Put all your eggs into one basket," Carnegie once advised, "and then watch that basket." For him that basket brimmed with steel. Fiercely competitive, obsessed with innovation and efficiency--he would unhesitatingly scrap a relatively new plant to erect a more modern one--Carnegie imported the Bessemer forced...
...loyalists down in greater Baghdad. As the U.S. Army tightened its noose around Saddam, he'd be tempted to unleash whatever nuclear, chemical and biological weapons he has squirreled away. While the war raged, Iraqi skies also would be filled with U.S. broadcasts urging Iraqis to abandon Saddam and embrace a new national leader...