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EXACTLY WHOSE EGO AND GREED...
Your cover [March 13] featured two stories: one was billed Ego and Greed," about Nick Leeson, and the other was the Special Report on the candidates for the 1996 presidential race. Until I took a closer look, I thought the two titles were for the same story. After all, the presidential race is about ego and greed. The only difference between Leeson and the presidential candidates is that Leeson spent the bank's money whereas the candidates want to use American taxpayers' money! Edward Zinkin Rochester, New York AOL: EdwardZ...
...only one who knows the answer to those questions, and last week he wasn't talking. Still, what is already known of his strategy and what could be teased out through interviews with far-flung friends and colleagues suggest a tale of arrogance and greed on a grand scale...
...going to hold to my guns and avoid this travesty. I said it back in September and I'll say it again: I'm not coming back unless both sides make concessions to the fans and those people who were put out of work by the greed of both sides...
...Shallow Grave" seeks to describe greed, but contains no real character analysis, and no profound insights into why ordinary people would behave like animals in the pursuit of a suitcase full of money. Boyle's final shot is haunted by the maniacal laughter of a flatmate as blood runs over the image of Queen Elizabeth's face on a bank note. It makes the viewer wonder if "Shallow Grave's" gory pandemonium is a big, shallow joke...