Word: greed
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...many Americans, 2002 will go down in history as the year corporations failed them. Story after incredible story of greed and wrongdoing has created an array of new bogeymen: Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski (31 felony counts), Enron's Andrew Fastow (indicted for wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy), ImClone's Sam Waksal (insider trading). Politicians have huffed and chuffed about how to fix the system, but legislation proposed to date is likely to lack teeth. The Bush Administration responded late to the public's sense of outrage, then seemed to lose focus. In the end, the only man who appeared...
...cloaked herself in her family and church. "Her faith," says William Vanderbloemen, her pastor at Houston's First Presbyterian, "was sharpened." But so, markedly, was her despair. "There were some very bleak moments throughout when you're just so disappointed with human nature, with the power of greed and the power of denial, trying to rationalize that you've done nothing wrong," she says...
...Island, where large, red letters that read IN GOD WE TRUST are poised above sculptor Wang Guangyi's bulky, socialist-realist statues of heroic workers that emerge out of the ground like ghosts from the Cultural Revolution. Sincerity jousts with irony, old communist values with new China's avarice. Greed, of course, has the upper hand; many of the works at the exhibition exude ambivalence toward the country's rampant materialism and unchecked urban growth. Liang Juhui's Floating Transported uses video projection to simulate living in China's cramped, anonymous cities, while the desolate black-and-white photos...
...Greed and growth are easy targets, and they are attacked with such zeal that it's possible to overlook the heavy hand of artistic censorship in China. It's not quite invisible, however. While a few works reference the Sino-Japanese War, nothing at the exhibition addresses recent traumas, events still imbued with fresh political sensitivity. An installation inspired by last year's U.S. spy plane incident off Hainan Island was scrapped right before the exhibition was set to open, without explanation by authorities. The government is fine with history, so long as it's kept in the past...
...unison with the then 1,600 churches of Moscow, most of which no longer exist. I thought the students and faculty of Harvard were educated, but I guess they are just greedy. Who knows if there is justice; maybe the Lord will send down a pestilence upon you for greed. Your editorial echoes the party line; it reeked of greed, and greed is a sin! May God have mercy on your souls...