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...received an additional $27 billion last month. The six-year bull market, which has seen the Dow rise from around 2,400 in 1990, shows little sign of letting up. All that good news has investors confident of still higher markets, which is exactly what worries some analysts. "Unbridled greed and lust," said Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach. "There is a conviction that we are in a perfect world, irrespective of any growth rate, where we will never again have any problem with inflation, Fed policy and interest rates...
...future of the University. Harvard should face up to the truth--it is unnecessarily hoarding cash at the expense of people, like Hickey, who depend on the money for their livelihood. When the current students graduate and are hounded by Harvard for contributions, they should reflect upon its insatiable greed, and they should give their money to a worthier cause. The technically proficient, mindless automatons running this University, and not Joe Hickey, should be offered severance...
...control ever greater aspects of our lives. As you put it, he is "the man who is shaping our future." And Gates, with his materialism and hunger for power, seems to be more a detriment to society than a positive influence. By worshipping knowledge over wisdom, by embracing greed over sharing and by clinging to logic without spirituality, he epitomizes the attitude that has brought our world to the sad condition it is in today. GEORG VON BAICH Toronto...
...gratitude that can never be repaid," pitchers David Cone and Tom Glavine, the current AL and NL player representatives, said in a statement. "With the odds overwhelmingly against him, he was willing to take a stand for what he knew was right." Flood's fight was not about greed but about rights, about raising the status of players above that of commodity. Many of today's fans look at free-agency today and see sky-high salaries, labor strife, and disappearing team loyalty; for many, Flood's legacy has turned sour. But those remembering Flood described a quiet, noble...
...only for Boulderites). "It is often an effort to assure ourselves that such a tragedy will never happen to us." Well, yes. Beyond that, there is the question of whether this is a work of the darkest evil imaginable or a more or less random act of malice and greed gone awry. Random violence cannot be dealt with as a practical matter, but it can be comprehended. Evil on this scale is impossible to comprehend. To know who murdered JonBenet Ramsey is to know what world we live in, where...