Word: excessions
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...described by Bush in his speech is, in fact, the driving force of capitalism - and it is entirely inseparable from the faith that undergirds all private investment. Reforms under discussion in Washington can address abuses; it remains to be seen whether the president's plea for conscience will eliminate excesses. (On this score the President's words are wishful rather than descriptive - there's been plenty of capitalism without conscience, and character has never been a precondition for wealth.) But nothing Washington is able to do can address the question of excess in the stock market - more specifically, the discrepancy...
...mother was cultured, his father defiantly not. Max Hart was a round (300-pound!) boisterous sort who did favors for Tammany Hall and, if he was too lazy to go to the bathroom, he'd take a whizz out the dining room window. Lorenz had Papa's appetite for excess and Mama's love of lore. He had his mother's height too: a shade under five feet. Edith Meiser, who would star in Rodgers and Hart shows, described Larry as "the American Toulouse-Lautrec ... an enchanting man. He had such appeal.... He had this enormous head and a very...
...more vigilantly, but to little effect. With more than 81,000 square kilometers of coastline and 17,000 islands to patrol, the Department of Fisheries faces a herculean task, and it doesn't cost much to avert the eyes of a prying inspector. Marine biologists estimate that well in excess of half of the nation's coral reefs suffer some damage from dynamiting. Environmental education programs are having some effect, but international demand and a willingness to pay top dollar for reef delicacies like the napoleon wrasse make it difficult for conservationists to get their message across. Over the past...
...indisputably brave and talented photographer who could also be reckless, cynical and opportunistic. Much as Capa held his camera only inches from the faces of the grief-stricken and the grievously wounded, Kershaw focuses - tightly and unblinkingly - on a man who "invented himself" and who was exposed to an excess of both joy and horror in his 41 years. Born André Friedmann in Budapest in 1913, Capa entered a world in conflict, between nations and between his parents. In his teens, André - poor, clever, bored, romantic at heart and discriminated against as a Jew - became involved with leftist...
...Gurney in the pleasures of the flesh, turning his stay in Cracow into an all-hours, all-you-can-eat buffet of food, booze, art and piquantly incestuous sex. What makes the novel work is that Beckman's Cracow has two faces, comic and tragic. The city enables their excesses, but at the book's most chilling moments it finds ways to remind them of the consequences of that excess in a way that an American city never could. When Gurney peeks below that cute cobblestoned surface, he finds the ravages of communism, and beneath them, the horrors...