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...PAST VISITOR TO THE GALAPAGOS Islands, I know that no photos or stories can do justice to the unusual ecology and wildlife of this incredible place. To read about the troubled future of the Galapagos was very disheartening [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 30]. Once again, human greed and lack of foresight are made evident by the destruction of this invaluable ecological reserve. Its value has to be recognized and respected. CYNTHIA A. MULVEY Cincinnati, Ohio...
...failed to convince voters that they need 24-hour casinos. In Missouri, a riverboat-gambling proposal was sunk, as was an effort to win floating casinos for Indiana. And in the year's most colorful campaign, "gonzo" journalist Hunter Thompson persuaded voters in Aspen, Colorado, to unite against "the greed heads" and the "absentee-landlord scum" seeking to expand the town's airport to accommodate big jets...
...anti-environmental Congress of our lifetime. Resource-extraction industries, foreign and domestic, are writing the legislation to weaken laws that have protected our land, air and water. We Montanans are proud of living in the "last best place," and we are now concerned that the forces of plunder and greed are about to sanction the destruction of the best of our last places. PAT WILLIAMS, U.S. Representative, Montana Washington...
...sanctioned repeatedly by regulators. In a court ruling in 1990, a judge held that First Commercial failed to raise "a single credible defense" to a customer's allegations that the firm had defrauded him. "The case," wrote the judge, "establishes once more that there are virtually no limits to greed, or the ingenuity of men in devising schemes to cheat." First Commercial is still having run-ins with regulators. Last May the Commodity Futures Trading Commission accused it of engaging in a check-kiting scheme to mislead regulators about its financial condition. The firm is fighting the charges...
...usually preach a message of inclusion and equality, are thus hampered in some ways. Yet there is no reason for Democrats to become timid and overly prone to compromise with their Republican enemies. There are may issues that Democrats could speak stridently about, such as corporate crime and greed, the bloated defense budget and the destruction of the environment. But today's Democrats are trying to convince the public that they are kinder, gentler Republicans. This is a suicidal agenda...