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...latest American Idol? Wrong! Dragons' Den is a program about money for sale. Five wealthy venture capitalists take pitches from hungry entrepreneurs, who try to persuade the moneybags to invest in businesses ranging from fashion to toys to furniture. The VCs finger stacks of money like countinghouse kings while they grill the hopefuls, causing more squirm and humiliation than The Office...
Second surprise: Dragons' Den isn't a U.S. show. Started in Japan, it has become a prime-time hit in Britain, not known for entrepreneurial zeal or money obsession. That, of course, is changing. The Brits are demonstrating that they can be as avaricious and rude as any Yanks. The VCs, who include Doug Richard, an American expat, even fight with one another. "You've just completely been a sly little s___," one excoriated another after getting burned...
...imperial palace last inhabited by Wilhelm II crumpled into rubble. The great dome of the cathedral on the other side of Unter den Linden burst into flames and then collapsed. One shell hit a riding stable in the Tiergarten park, and the horses went galloping wildly down the Kurfürstendamm, their manes and tails on fire...
...Shammai school. Shammaite criticism of Jesus for socializing with Gentile sinners or healing on the Sabbath reflected specific debates between the schools. When Jesus attacked the money changers in the Temple, he declared that it was a "house of prayer for all the nations," but had become a "den of robbers." The author suggests that the money changers were corrupt Shammaites who were pocketing donations from Gentile converts to Judaism. Falk even proposes that the Golden Rule of Jesus is just a positive rephrasing of statement by Rabbi Hillel, who once told a pagan inquirer, "What is hateful unto thee...
Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 says that Reese plays “with a little boy’s enthusiasm, and he plays with a willingness to go into the lion’s den a little bit,” adding, “that’s a characteristic most great players have...