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Should Joseph Jett be regarded as Nietzsche's Ubermensch incarnate? Jett was recently fired from his Wall Street post as head government-bond trader at Kidder Peabody, the 128-year-old investment bank. He allegedly masterminded an illegal trading scheme that will result in a $140 million loss for his company...
...They have heart. One of Brooks' cardinal rules: Let's not be afraid of emotion. The strongest episodes are those (like "Lisa's Substitute," "Homer Alone," "Like Father, Like Clown" and "Bart the Lover") that reveal the bedrock fondness, desperation and loyalty that bond this or any other frazzled clan. A viewer can feel awe at the show's cascading wit and still purr at the sweet, deep sentiment. Hail, Simpsons! May you live another 100 episodes at the same apex of quality...
...complaints begin with the chaos that has sent global stock and bond prices reeling in recent weeks, knocking nearly 10% off the Dow Jones industrial average since its peak on Jan. 31 and placing the future of Wall Street's three-year-old bull run in serious doubt. But beneath the immediate outcry lies a more fundamental criticism of the way Greenspan has tried to keep his balance between several constituencies. According to this line of attack, Greenspan, who fiercely resisted White House pressure for lower interest rates during the Bush Administration, has sought to make an ally of Clinton...
...previously banal signifiers as handshakes and haircuts, comic books and pop music, became freighted with contentiousness. Soon Steve Martin was introducing politically correct comedy to the smoking debate. "Mind if I smoke?" he imagined someone asking him, then replied, "No. Mind if I fart?" In the '80s, even James Bond felt bad about smoking. Today the habit is excoriated -- antitobacconists depict Joe Camel as a schoolyard drug pusher -- and publicly survives only as a vestige of James Dean rebelliousness. Denis Leary's very funny pro-smoking rants are essentially ironic; taken seriously, they would come across as nostalgia...
...rate, what becomes important of first-years as they make the difficult transition from their comfortable homes to a college dorm is not exterior architecture or construction cost, but rather the close friends they make and the comfort they find inside. And it is this comfort and the tight bond of dormmates for which Canaday is known and loved, especially by its residents...